He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. “I miss you, ” Isobel says as he leaves, but the sentiment is crushed by the clatter of the beaded curtain falling closed behind him.
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.
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T.S. Eliot
Prose divides shame into stations.
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Wayne Koestenbaum
But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant
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Jeffrey Eugenides
Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.
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Mark Twain
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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Walter Benjamin
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Celia, wait, ” Marco says, standing but not moving closer to her. “You are breaking my heart. You told me once that I reminded you of your father. That you never wanted to suffer the way your mother did for him, but you are doing...
You will be fine, ' the fortune teller says. 'There may be decisions to make and surprises in store. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.
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I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.
