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Who was blowing on the nape of my neck. ↗

— David Mitchell

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In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left her boots and has discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterline along which the sea continually licks the pink and silver sand, she learns about desire. ↗

— Anita Shreve

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It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea. ↗

— Richard Bach

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He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead. ↗

— Henry Miller

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I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years. ↗

— Jim Bakker

#actually #alan #book #came #down

Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served. ↗

— Christopher Darden

#conditions #going #happen #make #pay

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

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#force #live #moral #out #right