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You cannot have a contemporary prison without contemporary furniture.
—Clouseau

Jul 312018
 

Announcing that you will not be silenced should be legal grounds for doing so.

Jul 272018
 

You can stay in a huff forever, but not the same huff.

Jul 192018
 

Fool-proof is difficult, genius-proof is impossible.

Jun 222018
 

It turns out to be entirely possible to know where you’re going and not where you came from, and vice versa.

May 302018
 

Youth has a natural horror of age, and one gradually learns to reciprocate.

May 212018
 

The dissolute and profligate can always be depended on to preach sobriety and thrift; today it is the sober and thrifty who refuse to do so.

May 182018
 

It is more pleasant to be told that one has done a brilliant thing than that one is a brilliant person, which implies an obligation to continue.

Apr 052018
 

It was a distinctively contemporary utopia, a world in which one was never contradicted.