Helene had lived in Overland Park for twenty-plus years, but it never took her very long to remind you she was from New York.
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Much like the clown at the rodeo, Fox can keep the raging bull from stampeding a friend or family member. Fox can use silly tactics as a brilliant camouflage move. No one could guess the sly power behind such ingenious maneuvers.
— “Fox: Camouflage,” Medicine Cards
My generation is going to fade out not knowing what reality is.
— Sidney
A picture? Sure! I don’t mind. And if I do I’m lying.
— Peter
And they all started looking alike.
— Storyteller on emancipated sailors
We could go into town. O! What a nice bird.
— Emily
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— Ghost
If I were to reply sincerely to the question of which profession I would have liked to pursue, had I possessed enough vigor to lead a real life, I’d have to list, in this order: ladies’ hairdresser, ice cream vendor, bird and reptile taxidermist… What my three unrealized vocations have in common is a certain analogy with culture, of which they appear to be impermanent and degraded (or repressed) forms.
— César Aira, “The All That Plows Through The Nothing,” The Musical Brain
Joystick faucet.
That falls under shit happens. You fly a jillion miles and land in a hole.
— Guy whose company makes satellite open things on Europe’s Rosetta
Bog.
This is not a single use area.
— Ferry driver
Homemade rhubarb jam.
— Hanna
No wonder your president has to be an actor. He’s gotta look good on television.
— Dr. Emmett Brown, Back to the Future
We jumped out a window!
— Baymax, Big Hero 6
Queen of the cows!
— Lily
Birds!
— Lily on top of the roadside mountain we climbed
We’re cutting through it, it’s not cutting through us.
— Lily on landscapes
Why not?
— Mickey Shaughnessy’s response to “you mean you made all that money singing?,” Jailhouse Rock
Two rye bread slices, one with mashed fish & the other with smoked trout. Flatbread with sheep-head jelly, beansalad & turnip.
— Icelandic plate I at Cafe Loki