Flaubert's Errand #3
5 exquisitely crafted sentences of prose I encountered in my recent reading.
“Sometimes I think the only beautiful thing left about mankind is that we went to the moon because we felt like it.”
Thought Catalog:: The Man Who Came From The Future
"The Godfather is a “three bears” story about the three sons."
Five Books:: The Best Books on the Mafia
“In treating the symptoms without containing the underlying disease, America has chosen a costly and Sisyphean road.”
Economist Espresso :: America’s covid stimulus
"The checklist is not a substitute for experience but a distillation of it."
Financial Times:: How I learnt the power of checklists
“A religion is a philosophy that makes you dance."
Unpopular Opinion:: You can't dance to atheism
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