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Sunday Sentence: Casebook

May 25, 2014

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.   When I thought things like that, I just stopped. I could still stop my thinking then. But not for much longer.   ... Read More...

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Sunday Sentence: Astonish Me

April 20, 2014

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.     He is still proud of Harry, but the pride is something different than it used to be: it has been cut away from his pride in himself and left to stand on its own.  ... Read More...

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Sunday Sentence: The Ballad of a Small Player

March 30, 2014

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.   Success is irresistible. It’s like a crime scene, something that enchants the worst side of the mind.   ... Read More...

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Sunday Sentence: Fallen Beauty

March 2, 2014

fallen beauty

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.     Do something or don’t, and be confident in it, but don’t sulk. ... Read More...

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Sunday Sentence: Kinder Than Solitude

February 23, 2014

kinder than solitude

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen. The key to success, in his parents’ opinion, was the capacity to selectively live one’s life, to forget what one ought not to remember, to untangle oneself from lesser and irrelevant others, and to recognize the unnecessariness of ... Read More...

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Sunday Sentence: On Such a Full Sea

January 26, 2014

on such a full sea

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.     Might the most fulfilling times be those spent solo at your tasks, literally immersed or not, when you are able to uncover the smallest surprises and unlikely details of some process or operation that in turn exposes ... Read More...

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