"Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors."

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Source : "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Chapter 4, What Is A Good Sentence?, p. 38. Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

Stanley Fish

#Sentences Quotes

“God has laid upon us many severe trials in this world, but He has created labour for us, and all is compensated. Thanks to labour, the bitterest tears are dried; a serious consoler, it always promises less than it bestows; a pleasure unparalleled, it is still the salt of other pleasures. Everything abandons you -- gaiety, wit, love -- labour alone is always present.”
“From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires.”
“Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?”
“Working at the magic shop really gave me a sense of comedy because it was all jokes.”
“Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.”
“There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.”
“In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.”

Source : Douglas Hofstadter (2008). “Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern”, p.489, Hachette UK
“We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.”

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