Un-inspirational Quotes for Grumpy Cynics

The Useless Garnish of the Literary World

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We live in a world of quotes. Many of them inspirational, most of them completely useless at parting a comprehensive or meaningful message. At first I didn’t mind them. I didn’t often have to deal with the flowery platitudes, but the internet age has allowed these little snippets of facile sophistries to infect every level of social media, so I’m…