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Wiley Miller, Non Sequitur, Dec 21, 2022

There's an old saying in business: no indictment, no problem.

Samuel-Auguste Tissot, An Essay on Diseases Incidental to Literary and Sedentary Persons

Some men are by nature insatiable in drinking wine, others are born cormorants of books.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

A man first quarrels with his father about three quarters of a year before he was born.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

Christianity was true in so far as it had fostered beauty.

P. G. Wodehouse (in the person of Jeeves)

You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.

Morissey

I was looking for a job and then I found a job and Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now.

Henry James, letters

It is a complex fate to be an American.

Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

The end of a novel is like the end of the world; it is good to put it off.

Chaos Latinum, #566, ed. Andreas Sutor (A soldier's life is to live badly and drink well.)

Vita militum est male vivere et bene bibere.

Lou Reed, Beginning To See The Light

There's problems in these times but woo! none of them are mine