One Sentence
Ben DolnickExplaining and appreciating great sentences from books
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Louis Sachar, Holes
“[He didn’t know he was Stanley’s great-great-grandfather.]”
Often I’ll be reading a new book to my daughter — something I’ve brought home from the library with great excitement — and the first couple of pages will go well enough. We’ll be...
Timothy Ferris, The Mind’s Sky
“Joe smiled a lot, on the field and off, but his was a static smile of repose, rather like a dolphin’s.”
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I realized recently that maybe it wasn’...
John Cheever, "Goodbye, My Brother"
“Oh, what can you do with a man like that?”
Reading and rereading John Cheever’s “Goodbye, My Brother,” looking for a sentence to single out, I feel like a child racing around the beach in search of the one seashell his parents have agreed...
Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March
“The calvary steeds were distant cousins of those drab nags who, for fifteen years, had done nothing but pull cabs to the station and back.”
I ought to have a special font for writing about certain books, or maybe a little animated bugler...
John Updike, "My Father's Tears"
“My father’s tears had used up mine.”
Do all professions have their versions of “kill your darlings”? Do trial lawyers set aside their sharpest closing arguments, counting on the jurors to reward their restraint? Do physical therapists rem...
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