When distinguished people try to be common, common people no longer try to be distinguished.
Aug 022023
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You cannot have a contemporary prison without contemporary furniture.
—Clouseau
Jul 242023
Dog-whistling, n. The theory that demagogues communicate esoterically.
Jul 212023
What I cannot brook is agreement.
Jul 032023
Publicists go to hell, not for their sins, but because the devil employs them to assure the residents that all is well, appearances notwithstanding.
Jun 292023
Good fences make good neighbors irrelevant.
Jun 052023
To have prophesied the disaster is a great consolation in its event.
May 232023
The imposing edifice of accepted opinion is surrounded by a narrow, rather weedy patch of lawn: this is acceptable opinion. It is barely visible from a distance and will soon vanish altogether.
May 182023
Under the skin we are not alike at all, and if we understood each other better would quarrel more.
May 012023
How many geniuses there are, yet how few who can understand them!
Apr 272023
It is not always easy to spot a rotter, but “middle-class” as an insult is an infallible sign.