Category: beautiful sentences
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Beautiful Sentences: Sigrid Nunez
In the news: Thirty-two million adult Americans can’t read. The potential audience for poetry has shrunk by two-thirds since 1992. A “rent-burdened” woman worrying how she’s going to survive in New York City decides to try writing a novel (“and that’s going well”). Sigrid Nunez, The Friend.
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Beautiful Sentences: Tommy Orange
She presses the Home button and for a second, just for a small moment, thinks she should open her other Facebook feed. On that other Facebook, she’d find the information and media she’d always been looking for. On that other Facebook feed, she’d find true connection. That is where she’d always wanted to be. Is…
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Beautiful Sentences: Sigrid Nunez
If reading really does increase empathy, as we are constantly being told that it does, it appears that writing takes some away. Sigrid Nunez, The Friend.
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Beautiful Sentences: Tommy Orange
Those hills bend time. Tommy Orange, There There.
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Beautiful Sentences: Emily Banks
We close our own dead’s eyes so we can’t seethis pupilless despair, the final begging prayersof a godless animal. Emily Banks, “Thaw.”
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Beautiful Sentences: Fernando Pessoa
And I smile to myself as I think that life, which includes these pages bearing the names of fabrics and various sums of money, blank spaces, ruled lines and letters, also includes the great navigators, the great saints, the poets of every age, none of whom appear in this book, a whole vast progeny excluded…
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Beautiful Sentences: Joy Williams
Little children were too innocent to provide salvation. Indeed, little children were always leading their elders right into the teeth of death. Joy Williams, The Changeling.
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Beautiful Sentences: Fernando Pessoa
There is no work of art that could not have been more perfect. Read line by line, no poem, however great, has no single line that could not be improved upon, no episode that could not be more intense, and the whole is never so perfect that it could not be even more perfect. Fernando…
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Beautiful Sentences: Joy Williams
They had provided her with substitutions and she had lived safely in the brightness of false things. Joy Williams, The Changeling.