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Sylvia Plath • The Bell Jar (FF Classics)
To conceal meaning (it was reasoned) is equally to conceal lack of meaning….
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
clairvoyance.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez • One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Americans have retained these three distinguishing characteristics of the judicial power; an American judge can only pronounce a decision when litigation has arisen, he is only conversant with special cases, and he cannot act until the cause has been duly brought before the court.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
“Canned food is a perversion,” Ignatius said. “I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.”
John Kennedy Toole • A Confederacy of Dunces
rhetor doing the work of a philosopher.” It might be more accurate to say that he was a critic doing the work of a prophet.
Richard M. Weaver • Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition
The essay ends in a kind of dream—with the image of a plush red curtain clasped and crushed in grief. And we’re happy to follow Woolf there, in part, because of that dash in her opening sentence, which denotes a passage from the dream-fugue of sickness, depression, and undirected reading into the dirigible madness of writing.
Literary Hub • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
ou can hear in the delaying rhythms of the opening sentence the influence of Marcel Proust and the digressive, paid-by-the-word style of Thomas De Quincey, whose essays Woolf had lately looked into for the first time