Superfluous Quotes

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.

It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.