Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
“In the end, we all run from somebody.”
Source: Mikhail Baryshnikov, quoted by Javier C. Hernández for The New York Times.
Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
The alphabet is all there is to protect me; it’s what I was given instead of a gun.
Source: Philip Roth, Operation Shylock
Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
It was as though the genie of grievance had escaped the bottle in which a writer’s resentments are pickled and preserved and had manifested itself in humanish form, spawned by the inbreeding of my overly licked oldest wounds and mockingly duplicating the man I am.
Source: Philip Roth, Operation Shylock
Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
No sentence this week! I anticipate a post that does include a sentence next week!
Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
“It has awakened anew the spirit of brotherly love among us, and we have had an opportunity of experiencing that oceans may intervene between our dispersed remnant, that mountains may divide us, but that yet the Israelite is ever alive to the welfare of his distant brother.”
Source: Isaac Leeser (1806-68), quoted in Norman H. Finkelstein, Saying No to Hate: Overcoming Antisemitism in America.