Exemplary Sentences

Exemplary Sentences

• It may be that universal history is the history of a handful of metaphors. (Jorge Luis Borges)

• The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. (Stephen King)

• He walks down the street. (Keri Hulme)

• The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. (Joseph Conrad)

• I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that monstrous dwarf Queen Victoria. (John Fowles)

• Our house was haunted. (Sharon Butala)

• Leave where you are and come stand beside me. (Phil Jenkins)

• All this I saw. (Carlos Fuentes)

• I was born in the city of Bombay… once upon a time. (Salman Rushdie)

• The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. (Amy Tan)

• I learned about the other Philip Roth in January 1988, a few days after the New Year, when my cousin Apter telephoned me in New York to say that Israeli radio had reported that I was in Jerusalem attending the trial of John Demjanjuk, the man alleged to be Ivan the Terrible of Treblinka. (Philip Roth)

• I am a sick man… I am a spiteful man. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

• In wartime the state seeks to destroy its own culture. (Chris Hedges)

• It is your day, patient one. (W.S. Merwin)

• Why do I feel compelled to attribute all that I have to something outside myself? (John Terpstra)

• The first story that I have to tell isn’t exactly true, but it isn’t exactly false, either. (Lewis Hyde)