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Inspiration from Walt Kelly, Al Kelly, Jean Shepherd, H. Allen Smith, Steve Post, S.B. Peck, G. Fuhrman, G.H. Shaw, J.J. Clavin, W.J. Miele, B.C. Williams, and Mrs. Chen.
Your short-piece writer's time is not Walter Lippmann's time, or Stuart Chase's time, or Professor Einstein's time. It is his own personal time, circumscribed by the short boundaries of his pain and his embarrassment, in which what happens to his digestion, the rear axle of his car, and the confused flow of his relationships with six or eight persons and two or three buildings is of greater importance than what goes on in the nation or in the universe. He knows vaguely that the nation is not much good any more; he has read that the crust of the earth is shrinking alarmingly and that the universe is growing steadily colder, but he does not believe that any of the three is in half as bad shape as he is.
—James Thurber, "Preface to a Life"
Die Sache war die, daß Tonio Hans Hansen liebte und schon Vieles um ihn gelitten hatte. Wer am meisten liebt, ist der Unterlegene und muß leiden. Diese schlichte und harte Lehre hatte seine vierzehnjährige Seele bereits vom Leben entgegengenommen. —Thomas Mann, "Tonio Kröger"
He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast. —James Joyce, "A Painful Case"
Aye, ere the noods of nump sway into the forget. —Walt Kelly
We are all victims, friends, of creeping meatballism. —Jean Shepherd
This, the University Lesser, has, by some grotesque failure of cognition beyond pontifical gorch, erred. —S.B. Peck
I am sure as I write this that it's all over
again. —G. Fuhrman
Nobody is authorized to do anything.
—B.C. Williams
We don't know. —Dr. Frank Baxter