Chase Mcclendon

“If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.”
― David Hume

“Speech is a rolling machine that always stretches the feelings it expresses.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“For irony—exploiting gaps between what’s said and what’s meant, between how things try to appear and how they really are—is the time-honored way artists seek to illuminate and explode hypocrisy.”
― David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments