Sentences

Artful Sentences    Virginia Tufte (2006)

Short sentences

Enough pain makes people numb.           Naomi Wolf,  The Beauty Myth, 249

Everyone has someone. Except me.

                Carolyn See, The Handyman, 206

Birdsong wakes me.

                Margaret Atwood, Surfacing,  47

She read everything.

                Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader, 169

Autos honked. Trees rustled. People passed. Arnie went out. --Langston Hughes

War remains the decisive human failure.  --John Kenneth Galbraith

The streets were calm with Sunday.  --Aimee Bender

And the words slide into the slots ordained by syntax, and glitter as with atmospheric dust with those impurities which we call meaning  --Anthony Burgess

Work was his life.  --Carlos Baker (about Hemingway)

Creators are workaholics.  --Ellen Winter

Music was my refuge. --Mayar Angelou

She was exasperation, she was torture. --Vladimir Nabokov

Dress is the frontier between the self and the not-self. --Elizabeth Wilson

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