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With a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the city. Omelas, bright-towered by the sea. The rigging of the boats in harbor sparkled with flags. In the streets between houses with red roofs and painted walls, between old moss-grown gardens and under avenues of trees, past great parks and public buildings, processions moved. Some were decorous: old people in long stiff robes of mauve and grey, grave master workmen, quiet, merry women carrying their babies and chatting as they walked. In other streets the music beat faster, a shimmering of gong and tambourine, and the people went dancing, the procession was a dance.


Ursula K. Le Guin


#music

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.


Charles A. Beard


#dark #destroy #enough #exceedingly #fertilizes

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.


Don DeLillo


#even #how #i #just #juxtaposition

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.


Jhumoa Lahiri


#breathe #certain #characters #conveying #enabling

I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.


Jhumpa Lahiri


#exactly #found #how #i #just

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.


Jhumpa Lahiri


#breathe #certain #characters #conveying #enabling

By the time I left to go downtown for supper, I was at the high point just short of where intoxication begins to droop into clumsiness or melancholy; and the minute I was outdoors the streets, in the very beautiful late of afternoon weather, improved, that if it can be improved, with the feeling of being alone for a little while, and with the sharp, tender enjoyment of a city I am ordinarily tired in.


James Agee


#age

David was catnip and kryptonite to me


Elizabeth Gilbert


#love

I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.


Carol Burnett


#computer #i #i love #idea #know

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.


Miguel de Cervantes


#drawn #experience #i #i believe #many






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