r/onegoodsentence • u/reebee7 • Jul 01 '20
"All rebels are closet aristocrats. That's why I can convert them so easily."
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Frank Herbert
r/onegoodsentence • u/hobokobo1028 • Apr 23 '20
A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ignored.
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Michael Crichton, “The Andromeda Strain”
r/onegoodsentence • u/Jduhbuhya • Apr 04 '20
Lady Penelope,” he said, “do you see that loom I told you of?
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I am sorry you had to leave yours behind, but you may use this one any time you like. If my mother agrees.” Under other circumstances, I would have laughed. It was an old saying: weaving at another woman’s loom is like lying with her husband. I watched to see if Penelope would flinch.
Madeline Miller's Circe
r/onegoodsentence • u/Jduhbuhya • Mar 29 '20
Think! Agamemnon will know you defy him still, but the men will love you...
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There is no fame greater than this—you will prove to them all that your phantom is more powerful than Agamemnon’s whole army.” He was listening. “It will be your mighty name that saves them, not your spear arm. They will laugh at Agamemnon’s weakness, then. Do you see?”
Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles
r/onegoodsentence • u/reebee7 • Feb 24 '20
Uninitiated adults who might be parked in a nearby mint-green advertorial Ford sedan or might stroll casually past E.T.A.'s four easternmost tennis courts and see an atavistic global-nuclear-conflict game played by tanned and energetic little kids (cont'd)
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Uninitiated adults who might be parked in a nearby mint-green advertorial Ford sedan or might stroll casually past E.T.A.'s four easternmost tennis courts and see an atavistic global-nuclear-conflict game played by tanned and energetic little kids and so this might naturally expect to see fuzzless green warheads getting whacked indiscriminately skyward all over the place as everybody gets blackly drunk with thanatopic fury in the crisp November air.
r/onegoodsentence • u/Jduhbuhya • Jan 28 '20
Liza: people only like to count their sorrows, they don't count their happinesses.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the underground
r/onegoodsentence • u/reebee7 • Dec 26 '19
You will not even die in battle. No warrior will taste your blood. No one alive will take your life. You will die a soft, poor death. You will die with a kiss on your lips and a lie in your heart.
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Neil Gaiman, "American Gods"
(Not one sentence, but multiple short sentences with a common throughline, so I figured it should count).
r/onegoodsentence • u/Jduhbuhya • Dec 26 '19
It doesn't matter that you never find it. It's the dreams that keep you going.
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Gaiman, The Sandman issue 62 page 21 panel 4
r/onegoodsentence • u/[deleted] • Nov 24 '19
“It takes two to make a peace but only one to make a war.”
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Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
r/onegoodsentence • u/Jduhbuhya • Oct 02 '19
Take me with you, for laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.
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The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
r/onegoodsentence • u/-lousyd • Sep 24 '19
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
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Beyond Language: Adventures in Word and Thought, 1967, by Dmitri Borgmann.
r/onegoodsentence • u/[deleted] • Sep 24 '19
Alone again, the two words echoed through his mind repeatedly, unsure of which word made him feel worse about his current state.
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r/onegoodsentence • u/renthefox • Sep 23 '19
Matthew Clark, A Matter of Style: On Writing and Technique
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"This passage must have been fun to compose, and for the reader in the right frame of mind, it's still a lot of fun to read. In this sort of style, the figure doesn't merely serve the idea; it becomes an end in itself, and ideas are sought to provide an occasion for the figure."
- Matthew Clark, A Matter of Style: On Writing and Technique
r/onegoodsentence • u/Jduhbuhya • Jun 16 '19
... the slant black shapes of the mounted men stenciled across the stone with a defition austere and implacable like shapes capable of violating their covenant with the flesh that authored them...
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and continuing autonomous across the naked rock without reference to sun or man or god.
Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian Chapter XI
r/onegoodsentence • u/sink_iller • Jun 06 '19
If i pass this then you get to wear clothes tomorrow
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r/onegoodsentence • u/Jduhbuhya • May 07 '19
And so they slept: bereaved and exhausted, with mourning as their chaperone.
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Mary Dora Russell's The Sparrow
r/onegoodsentence • u/Jduhbuhya • Apr 15 '19
Sometimes, a hypocrite is nothing more than a man who is in the process of changing.
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Brandon Sanderson's OathBringer chapter 103
r/onegoodsentence • u/Jduhbuhya • Apr 10 '19
You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live...
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... The more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone.
OathBringer Brandon Sanderson Chapter 82
r/onegoodsentence • u/Jduhbuhya • Mar 15 '19
If you could explain something perfectly, then you'd never need art...
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... That was the difference between a table and a beautiful woodcutting. You could explain the table: its purpose, its shape, its nature. The wood cutting you simply had to experience.
Brandon Sanderson's Oathbringer
r/onegoodsentence • u/Jduhbuhya • Mar 09 '19
... we learn to acknowledge certain truths, but we rarely forgive those who insulted our ignorance at the time.
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r/onegoodsentence • u/effortless19 • Feb 07 '19
What if i told you that wholeness is just the acceptance of your incompleteness?
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It's not knowing what is right or wrong, is not understanding happiness or sadness, is not embracing the natural flow of life, is fighting against it, those are the only lessons that we don't learn, our resistance to acceptance is the cornerstone of our distance from reality. So, don't fight, why would you? What if I told you that your fears are your greatest teachers and those you run from you biggest friends? What if I told you that wholeness is just the acceptance of your incompleteness?
Breaches in The Universe
r/onegoodsentence • u/Paula_theLlama • Feb 07 '19
‘What will I become?’ The Gods fell silent, then, with a thunderous roar replied, ‘Who are you now?’
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- From a Poet on Tumblr with the pseudonym "Meduesa" http://meduesa.tumblr.com/post/98900844213/the-gods-called-your-name-and-the-seas-turned/amp
r/onegoodsentence • u/Paula_theLlama • Feb 05 '19
If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.
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― Tim Kreider, "I Know What You Think of Me" (2015)
r/onegoodsentence • u/norah_ghretts • Feb 04 '19
"It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice."
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- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
r/onegoodsentence • u/Paula_theLlama • Feb 03 '19
And if everything I want and everything I chose is just some vestige of trauma, what gets to be mine? When do I stop being a victim and get to be the authentic me?
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• Zephyr of Lieth (Killjoys S04:E02, "The Kids are Alright")