March 2012
6 posts
Round-up of fine sentences, part 7
He vividly remembers the last time he spoke to someone the way he hears most sports fans speak today. He was in high school. He felt that his team got robbed by some bad calls, and in a moment of rage he called the referees words he made me swear I wouldn’t write here—a less polite rendition of, “My heavens, you’re extremely below average, you gentlemen who sleep with women who...
Round-up of fine sentences, part 6
I still prefer to consume sentences the old-fashioned and nongreen way, on the pulped carcasses of trees that have had their throats slit. I can imagine my tweener kids, in a few years, beginning to picket me for my murderous habits: “No (tree) blood for (narrative) oil.”
- Dwight Garner
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Round-up of fine sentences, part 5
He was neither nervous nor excited. Johnson plays a long game, so the ups and downs of individual hands, even big swings like this one, don’t matter that much to him. He is a veteran player. Little interferes with his concentration. He doesn’t get rattled. With him, it’s all about the math, and he knows it cold. Whenever the racily clad cocktail waitress wandered in with a fresh whiskey and Diet...
John Steinbeck on love
There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you—of kindness and consideration and respect—not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can...
Round-up of fine sentences, part 4
“It’s the new iPad. What are you talking about?” another Apple spokeswoman said, as if it’s common for updated devices to come out with the same names as their predecessors.
-John D. Sutter
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/07/tech/mobile/apple-new-ipad-name/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Wednesday was Purim, the Jewish holiday that commemorates the Jews’ salvation from an evil...
Round-up of fine sentences, part 3
Ultimately, in any authoritarian solution, the people with the power get lazy, and stupid, and they start making enough mistakes that people get tired of living with them. It’s one of the reasons we don’t have East Germany anymore. And baseball always has had a sweet tooth for the authoritarian solution.
- Charles Pierce
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