The Beautiful Sentence

Sentences with sound and sense. E. A. Gordon, lepidopterist.

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Every day, our cultural narrative posits that there is racism without racists, sexual assault without aggressors, rape without rapists.

Your Fat Friend, Medium

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One of those truly magical things that human beings can do together is to create harmony, to create a third thing that wasn’t there before the two decided to cooperate.

John C. Reilly, interviewed by Molly Lambert in The New York Times

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We’re obsessed with gender and categorization, so if we’re not casting women aside for being old and irrelevant, we’re fetishizing them to marginalize their power.

Christia Brown, quoted by Elise Solé in Yahoo Lifestyle

[ayellowbirds]

you got your half-woman half-fish: mermaids 

and you got your half-lass half-horse: centaurides

then you got your half-lady half-birds: harpies

you even got your half-lady half-octopuses: cecaelia

i propose half girl, half crocodilian galligators

[pixierosegarden-deactivated2022]

Just galigators being paligators

[brainstatic]

Everyone’s like “those Germans have a word for everything” but English has a word for tricking someone into watching the music video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up.

[queenrinacat]

English has a lot more words created for very specific phenomena! It’s not just rick-rolling. Language is always evolving and it’s super interesting! Here’s a list of hyper-specific/untranslatable words in English.

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Skincare articles by young writers may effectively silence the voice of the middle-aged woman, yet they fail to silence the writers’ fear of that woman.

Chelsea G. Summers, Medium

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Let us be true, even if we are ugly.

Gustave Courbet, quoted by Angela Chen in Catapult

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My acting school was acting.

Kathleen Turner, interviewed by David Marchese in Vulture 

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The vague sense of torpor and gloom that so many Americans have shouldered these past two years derives precisely from the constancy of Trump’s galling statements and actions.

David Remnick, The New Yorker

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The internet seemed to resent its own enjoyment.

Jamie Lauren Keiles, The New York Times

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Without the artificial coloring FD&C Yellow No. 6, Cheetos Crunchy Cheese Flavored Snacks would look like the shriveled larvae of a large insect.

Gardiner Harris, The New York Times, via Quartz Obsession

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Her indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies, whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.

Aleksandar Hemon, The New Yorker

[bakwaaas]

Why are women expected to dilute and tone down their personalities to be more appealing to men. Men are never told that they might struggle to get married because they are ‘too much’. They are never too opinionated, too confident, too educated, too passionate, too strong willed… it’s always women who must chip away at their selves to become more soft and easy to stomach and pliable.

[profanefame]

Whenever a man diminishes you to boost himself: DUMP HIS ASS

[elloette]

When your hair is wavy/curly sometimes there is a fine line between “messy romantic waves” and “evil witch who lives in the woods.”

[m0nsterbrains]

When your hair is fine and straight there’s a fine line between “sleek and elegant” and “weasel dipped in grease”

[black-quadrant]

raise your hand if you've got the sweetest followers and you appreciate each and every one

[whollyart]

You know I love you all! I appreciate every single note, comment, reblog, and tag you have given me. It’s an honor.

[meganwrote]

I APPRECIATE EVERYONE ONE OF YOU HEATHENS! 

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🙌

[xx-4ng3l-4v4r1c3-xx-archive-dea]

you fuckers never interact with me but i see you reblogging my shit and it makes me happy

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The journalism that you consume IS the interesting part of the media.

Hamilton Nolan, Splinter

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The times I've felt most desolate, most inconsolable, were times when I wrote faithfully and didn't receive the same in return. For someone to write back was to say *I read your words, I know you, I see you, I want you to write again*.

Anne Helen Peterson, Medium