Category Archives: FROM THE QUOTE BAG

QUIZZO-CRITICAL GABBLE compiled by A. Cackle Bladder brought to you by Crowley’s Cyclonic Carnival, Inc. "Progress is our most important product"     Perhaps it was in a cave in some bare and wind-swept hill, perhaps some inmost recess of … Continue reading →

It doesn’t pay to try All the smart boys know why That doesn’t mean I don’t try I just never know why – Johnny Thunders   I must have talked incessantly about myself, about how I really didn’t want to … Continue reading →

Plausibly Divine Fragments   Four and three and two and one When I’m on the mike the suckers run – The Beastie Boys   I Flashed With Passing Colors   We step and do not step into the same rivers, … Continue reading →

In one corner, standing on a rough stage, a poet, his hair as wooly as a Brillo pad, his pocked nose jutting beyond the sagebrush of his beard, held a few sheets of notepaper on a level with his eyes. … Continue reading →

From the Files of Manifex Saltmarsh, Ph.D. brought to you by Smith-Smith: Discretion Guaranteed Barjon Garth of the X Division And The Monks of Medmenham in honor of our recently elected Letter Queen   Decadence…may very broadly be considered as … Continue reading →

The right to an arbitrary vision of the world is the most sacred, the most inalienable right of man. Art only proclaims out loud this too often forgotten right. – Claude-Edmonde Magny   The attitude of great poets is to … Continue reading →

Professor Chan Fu Speaks   Style is like a second cousin to class. Style is loving yourself until everyone else does too. – Prince   I told myself that this slim personage in a white frock who wore stockings that … Continue reading →

Quotebag: The Hi-Fli Discotheque   I cannot pretend that I was attracted by her charms. It was the air of the perverse about her that held my long admiring glances as I passed. There was a stylishness about the urchin-cropped … Continue reading →

His most important inspiration sprang from the neurotic tensions of his youth rather than from the healthy, even athletic, objectivity of his maturity. – William S. Liberman   Her sweet audacities delight me; That dazzling beauty is Love’s slippery precipice. … Continue reading →

Doubly distinguished by the perfect simplicity of her apparel, and by her tall, supple, commanding figure, she took rank at once as the most remarkable woman in the room. – Wilkie Collins   She drew her skirt up a little, … Continue reading →