Just another writer
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Beautiful Sentences: Renata Adler
It would not have been a crime, of course. But it would have taken us over that edge of irreversible violence where, whether in a pattern of years or in the flicker of an oversight, crime begins. Renata Adler, Speedboat.
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Beautiful Sentences: Aldous Huxley
Man can’t live by bread alone, because they need to feel their life has a point. That’s why they take to idealism. But it’s a matter of experience and observation that most idealism leads to war, persecution and mass insanity. Aldous Huxley, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan.
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Your vote for the Greens is a vote for Trump
With yesterday’s results from Ohio’s special election, it’s clear that some people haven’t learned the lessons of the 2016 and 2000 elections. If you voted for some third-party candidate, “some people” is you. Political science has few hard laws, but there if you were to ask a political scientist what the strongest result of political science…
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Beautiful Sentences: Salman Rushdie
At the beginning of love there is a private treaty each of the lovers makes with himself or herself, an agreement to set aside what is wrong with the other for the sake of what is right, Love is spring after winter. It comes to heal life’s wounds, inflicted by the unloving cold. When that…
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Beautiful Sentences: Katherine Anne Porter
The sailors were out again washing down the decks, which rolled gently as the Vera set out resolutely for the Canaries with only a head or two looking out of her portholes to watch the eternal love affair between the moon and the sea. Katherine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools.
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Beautiful Sentences: Laudomia Bonnani
The faded saints swayed from the frescoes in elusive benevolence. Laudomia Bonnani. The Reprisal.
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Beautiful Sentences: Elena Ferrante
All that struggle, all that time spent camouflaging myself when I could be doing something else. The colors that suited me, the ones that didn’t, the styles that made me look thinner, those that made me fatter, the cut that flattered me, the one that didn’t. A lengthy, costly preparation. Reducing myself to a table…
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Beautiful Sentences: Laudomia Bonnani
Priests are curious, as everyone knows, a priest never just takes a look and moves on. Everyone’s business is his business. Everybody in the end had already understood that. Laudomia Bonnani. The Reprisal.
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Beautiful Sentences: Elena Ferrante
Each of us narrates our life as it suits us. Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay.