Just another writer
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Beautiful Sentences: David Gilbert
Adolescence seems to open a small hole in which the rest of our lives drain. David Gilbert, & Sons.
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Beautiful Sentences: Beth Ann Fennelly
I want to paint in a foreign language. Beth Ann Fennelly, “Berthe Morisot: Retrospective”
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Beautiful Sentences: David Gilbert
He seemed a veteran of—I don’t know, adolescence, I suppose, which like all wars is particular to the combatant. David Gilbert, & Sons.
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Beautiful Sentences: Kevin Sampsell
Those teen years are when the scars happen. The scars you have to tend to the rest of your life, hoping they heal or fade away. Kevin Sampsell, “I’m Jumping Off the Bridge”
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Beautiful Sentences: David Gilbert
She had reasonable good looks, like many a reasonable girl at Exeter, the product themselves of reasonable mothers, always with dark hair never cut too short and surprisingly bad teeth—if not crooked, then yellow; if not yellow, then with large gums—and with naturally UV-protected skin, glasses almost mandatory but stylishly framed (their most overt fashion…
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Beautiful Sentences: James Wood
The acceptance of this kind of writing is dangerous not because anybody will confuse it with life, will think, “This is what life is like,” but because readers may read it and think, “This is what literature is like.” James Wood, “Tom Wolfe’s Shallowness, and the Trouble with Information.”
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Beautiful Sentences: John Fowles
If you want to be true to life, start lying about the reality of it. John Fowles, “Notes on an Unfinished Novel.”
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Beautiful Sentences: John Updike
Real life now commences, they are informed; the Eden of public education has shut its garden gate. A garden, Levy reflects, of rote teaching dully ignored, of the vicious and ignorant dominating the timid and dutiful, but a garden nevertheless, a weedy patch of hopes, a rough and ill-tilled seedbed of what this nation wants…