Just another writer
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Beautiful Sentences: Fernando Pessoa
Everything was sleeping as if the universe were simply a mistake, and the hesitant wind was a limp, unfurled flag on top of a nonexistent building. Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet.
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Beautiful Sentences: Sara Nović
I woke in the cobalt part of the dawn. Sara Nović, Girl at War.
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Beautiful Sentences: Fernando Pessoa
Having touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for faulty punctuation. Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet.
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Writerly resolutions, February Status
As the fact that I’m half a month late in posting this might attest, I’ve not been doing so good with my resolutions. Only 1,573 words on the novel which is worse than January. Short story statuses: The revisions on the long story have been problematic and I put it aside for a while. The…
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Beautiful Sentences: Éduoard Louis
That’s one part of scenes like this that people don’t think of: the physical pain, the body suffering all at once, bruised and wounded What people think of—faced with a scene such as this one, I mean: looking at it from the outside—is the humiliation, the inability to understand, the fear, but they don’t think…
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Beautiful Sentences: Jamie Quatro
Pets area fucking waste, Tommy says, chin quivering. They’re just ticking time bombs of sadness. Jamie Quatro, Fire Sermon.
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Beautiful Sentences: Rebecca Makkai
What is the opposite of memory? What is the inverse of an echo? Rebecca Makkai, The Hundred-Year House.
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Beautiful Sentences: Karen Joy Fowler
Just imagine writing one of your books with two thousand dead bodies to explain. And every single one of them left someone behind, begging their gods to undo it. Karen Joy Fowler, “Private Grave 9.”