Here is a collection of sentences that I like. It’s not an exhaustive list and perhaps I will update this post from time to time. I do find that I edit many of the thoughts that I post. Enjoy!
“When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only.”
Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”
“To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.”
John Steinbeck, “The Grapes of Wrath”
“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.”
Ernest Hemingway, “The Old Man and the Sea”
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby”
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
George Orwell, “1984”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice”
“Do or do not, there is no try.”
Yoda, Star Wars Episode V, Empire Strikes Back
