{"id":5610,"date":"2014-12-10T07:21:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T12:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=5610"},"modified":"2014-12-10T07:21:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T12:21:43","slug":"10-exquisite-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=5610","title":{"rendered":"10 Exquisite Sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Schaffer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BuzzFeed<\/a> compiled wonderful sentences from throughout the arts and published her list \u2013 <em>51 Of The Most Beautiful Sentences In Literature<\/em>. Here are the top-10 of those 51, as picked by <em>By George<\/em>. To read and enjoy the full list, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/jenniferschaffer\/i-am-i-am-i-am\" target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThere is a sense in which we are all each other\u2019s consequences.\u201d \u2013 Wallace Stegner, <em>All the Little Live Things<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201cI took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am.\u201d \u2014Sylvia Plath, <em>The Bell Jar<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c\u2018Dear God,\u2019 she prayed, \u2018let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.\u2019\u201d \u2014Betty Smith, <em>A Tree Grows in Brooklyn<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201cSometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I\u2019m not living.\u201d \u2014Jonathan Saran Foer, <em>Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered.\u201d \u2014Tom Stoppard, <em>Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201cIn spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.\u201d \u2014Anne Frank, <em>The Diary of Anne Frank<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201cShe was lost in her longing to understand.\u201d \u2014Gabriel Garcia Marquez, <em>Love in the Time of Cholera<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe curves of your lips rewrite history.\u201d \u2014Oscar Wilde, <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.\u201d \u2014Edith Wharton, <em>The Age of Innocence<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201cBeauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.\u201d \u2014Khaled Hosseini, <em>And the Mountains Echoed<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>(ed. \u2013 Many thanks to our friend Susan Wright who found this and posted it on her FB page.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Schaffer of BuzzFeed compiled wonderful sentences from throughout the arts and published her list \u2013 51 Of The Most Beautiful Sentences In Literature. Here are the top-10 of those 51, as picked by By George. To read and enjoy the full list, go here. \u201cThere is a sense in which we are all each&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[21,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5611,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions\/5611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}