Category: writing
-
Beautiful Sentences: Ernest Hemingway
“It’s all nonsense. It’s only nonsense. I’m not afraid of the rain. I’m not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn’t.” She was crying. I comforted her and she stopped crying. But outside it kept on raining. Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms.
-
Beautiful Sentences: Elie Wiesel
Why does the Torah begin with the second letter, beth, rather than the first, aleph? Because the latter was already in exile. Elie Wiesel, The Judges.
-
Beautiful Sentences: William Faulkner
My Mother is a fish. William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying.
-
Beautiful Sentences: Elie Wiesel
I’m past all desires; too many dead people dwell within me. Elie Wiesel, The Judges.
-
Beautiful Sentences: William Faulkner
I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind—and that of the minds of the ones who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality…
-
Beautiful Sentences: Elie Wiesel
What if they tried to play tricks with your memory in order to attack the thing it protects—your soul? Elie Wiesel, The Judges.
-
Beautiful Sentences: Maria Semple
This is why you must love life: one day you’re offering up your social security number to the Russia Mafia; two weeks later you’re using the word calve as a verb. Maria Semple, Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
-
Beautiful Sentences: Keith Ridgway
She liked art. She liked paintings and video art and photography. She liked to read about artists and she liked to hear them talk. She had been to all the big London art museums already, and she had been to some small ones too, and some galleries. She wanted to be an artist, she thought,…
-
Beautiful Sentences: Yiyun Li
Instead, we read other people’s stories, more real than our own; after all, inadequate makers of our own lives, we were no match for those masters. Yiyun Li, “Kindness.”