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Racter wrote better than many human writers because it did not allow jumbled thought or intruding ego to get in the way of what it wanted to say. The word order took most of the weight.
Joe Moran • First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
as to have grown up gentle, against your consent; then, to that child, immediately change your method; grow morose and severe; make favourites of all the rest, and encourage them to tease and insult it, till you have quite broke its spirit, and got the better of its natural placidness of disposition, so as to turn it into a dejected mope.
Jane Collier • An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting;: With Proper Rules for the Exercise of that Pleasant Art
Older, larger, and unpleasantly fleshy.
Madeline Miller • The Song of Achilles: A Novel
if possible, to stab, or poison the base wanton harlot who seduced him from your lawful bed:
Jane Collier • An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting;: With Proper Rules for the Exercise of that Pleasant Art
Philip Wylie • Science Has Spoiled My Supper
A sua expressão, a voz, as maneiras, haviam sido suficientes para de imediato o considerar como detentor de todas as virtudes. Tentou recordar algum acto de bondade, algum exemplo de rectidão ou de benevolência que pudesse contrariar as acusações do senhor Darcy; ou que, pelo menos, estabelecesse em Wickham um predomínio da virtude, susceptível de
... See moreJane Austen • Orgulho e Preconceito (Portuguese Edition)
It is the façade that triggers the problem.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Lady Duff Twysden, a character right out of a very good English novel who had lost her way. Her look was original, her chic was original, and God knows her speech and her capacity for drink were all original.