“Keeping options open” is the modern declaration of perpetual adolescence: always glutted with choices and never choosing, always becoming and never being, forever studying the menu.
Dec 012022
“Keeping options open” is the modern declaration of perpetual adolescence: always glutted with choices and never choosing, always becoming and never being, forever studying the menu.
Everyone wants higher standards, just not lower grades.
Eccentric behavior, like a genetic mutation, is usually deleterious, sometimes neutral, rarely beneficial, and occasionally lethal.
What audiences love and critics hate is likely vulgar; what audiences hate and critics love is likely malicious.
A necessary evil is a contradiction in terms.
One flesh, in many marriages, is no mere metaphor: the vitality of husband and wife mix, and one waxes as the other wanes.
We have laws against private usury, yet where are the laws against public uxory?
Youth is a terrible thing not to waste.
Necessity is contingency in retrospect.
Certain villains achieve martyrdom by the peculiar luck of being murdered by men still more villainous.