“You had to stop discussing politics or you would run right into it, causing no damage to anything but yourself.”
– Terry Pratchett, Snuff (p. 14)
Category / Humor
Abbott: Press On
Shaun Wesley Moss: “I’m still lifting weights, I’m still shooting guns, I’m still having children; I want to know I’m doing it for something not doomed to fail.”
Dean Abbott: “What do you think you’re doing it for? Family won’t disappear. Tradition is resilient. God doesn’t die. I mean, except for that one time.”
Moss: “Dean, I love you.”
Abbott: “Thank you. Press on.”
All 12 Minutes of It
“If Marxists ever get a culture-war-with-bullets going they are going to be appalled how f—ing bloody all 12 minutes of it are.”
– @ClarkHat (via Twitter)
McCammon: The Untidy Arrangement of Her Features
“… the untidy arrangement of her features looked like somebody had tried to beat out a fire on her face with the flat side of a shovel.”
– Robert McCammon, Boy’s Life (p. 67)
McCammon: Like Mud and Biscuits
“He was sitting beside Granddaddy Jaybird, which had compounded his agitation: the two got along like mud and biscuits.”
– Robert McCammon, Boy’s Life (p. 65)
In Pursuit of Copiousness 