Sentences – BIG OTHER

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield

A man who was married to someone who wasn’t me gave me an entire packing box of an old,…

“The femur is the longest and strongest bone in the human body.” Here’s a sentence from Gray‘s Anatomy that my…

“I commute all sentences.” —from Don Delillo’s The Names (p.32) This is lifted from a paragraph where a father, after a…

“This is the sound of ten million girls singing of a time in the universe when they were born with…

“This human nose, for instance, of which no philosopher has yet spoken with reverence and gratitude, is, for the present,…

“We each of us brothers took up a fist full of nails and a hammer into each one of our…

“Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question, out of an eye comes research, out…

On the occasion of William H. Gass’s birthday, I’ve cherry-picked sentences from all of his books: a publishing career spanning…

“Dining Room” from Selah Saterstrom’s The Pink Institution (Coffee House, 2004): “Willie called his daughters into the dining room. He…