Category: beautiful sentences
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Beautiful sentences
Line breaks willfully remind us of the wordlessness that surrounds and shapes the verbal passage; one could even say (if one wished to sabotage a fashionable critical locution) that in poetry the margin isn’t marginalized. Heather McHugh, “Moving Means, Meaning Moves.”
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Beautiful sentences
She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop. Man attempting to climb to painless heights from the dung hill. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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They should teach you the important things at school; the Battle of Hastings, that’s not useful, or not the way it’s taught. If they pointed out that life was all about getting your arse kicked by more successful, better-dressed people, that might be a help. Tibor Fischer, The Collector Collector.
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“I don’t like this game,” says Mrs Minder. “Yes you do,” says Julia. “You just don’t understand it.” Maile Chapman, Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto.
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Teacher: not a good sign. Few people go into this profession because they want to. They’re failed somethings—bank robbers, conductors, pilots, people who never found the way out of the educational system. A teacher of English to foreign students; even worse. Someone whose only employable trait is having been born in a country where the…
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Beautiful sentences
Magic means nothing to the blind. Ann Patchett, The Magician’s Assistant.
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Beautiful sentences
The mind needs rules. Rules are the true rulers. Tibor Fischer, The Collector Collector.
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Magicians all across the world managed quite well without assistants, but without magicians, the assistants were lost. Ann Patchett, The Magician’s Assistant.
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I dreamed I was an artist; my medium was cottage cheese. Rachel Blau DuPlessis, “For the Etruscans,” The Pink Guitar.