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Ben Dolnick

Explaining and appreciating great sentences from books

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Daphne Du Maurier, "The Birds"

“‘Something must have cut him, there was blood at the corner of his eyes.’”

Imagine, for a second, a world in which The Birds doesn’t exist. No Hitchcock movie, no Du Maurier story, no familiarity-dulled conviction that such an idea — a ho...

15 days ago
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D.H. Lawrence, "The Rocking-Horse Winner"

“‘We’ve been partners from the first!’”

A father (a father who knows that his family is too polite to leave the room) begins to tell about a dream. And his daughter, witnessing this recitation, thinks to herself, Hey, that seems kinda fun!...

a month ago
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Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater

“They had January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.”

When Jimi Hendrix, midway through “The Star-Spangled Banner,” lifts his guitar to his face and plays the solo with his teeth, he’s...

a month ago
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Beverly Cleary, Ramona's World

“‘He was a weird little fellow who grew up to be an interesting man, but at the time I wanted to dance with a tall, handsome boy.’”

If you were to ask me my favorite single piece of writing advice I’d probably mention Virginia Woolf’s diar...

2 months ago
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Dino Buzzati, "The Late Mistaken"

“Then he let the lid close completely.”

A forty-six year old painter opens the newspaper and is stunned to discover, there in the corner of the arts section, his own obituary.

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3 months ago
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