Flaubert's Errand #7

5 exquisitely crafted sentences of prose I encountered in my recent reading.

"Keep the company of those who seek the truth; run from those who have found it.”

The Economist :: Letters to the Editor (quoting Vaclav Havel)

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"... that feeling of personalities colliding and conspiring in the serendipity of a moment—that makes a restaurant so essential to the hum of a community."

Esquire :: The Real Reason I Miss Restaurants Has Nothing to Do With Food (via it is what it is*)

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"This has the polemical energy of a contrarian attack on a lazy bromide."

TLS :: Pitiless transactions

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"To put it in allegorical terms, the E.U. is restricting the size of the castle even as it dramatically increases the moat."

Stratecherry :: India, Jio, and the Four Internets

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"Gossip may be unaccountable, but it can force accountability."

1843 :: Nothing to speak of: the horror of a world without gossip

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