Some Nice Writing

I just wanted to share some phrases or sentences that caught my attention (primarily for their euphony).

--"like Geppetto fabricating his Pinocchio"  (Phillip Lopate)

--"the self as a social construct"  ("   ")

--"my physiological restlessness"  ("   ")

--"these societies are beset by a broad, nebulous discontent"  (Albena Azmanova)

--"To be radical is to grasp things by the root."  (Karl Marx)

--"There's something about being cooped up that calls for an abundance of comfort food."  (Whitney Perry)

--"a low-slung modern building of white bricks and smoke windows"  (Sam Freedman)

--"over-the-top opulence"  (Debbie Millman)

--"helping to seed the resentment that would later erupt in revolution"  ("   ")

--a 'pretense of undiminished vigor"  (Frank Bruni)

--"pharmacological affinities"  ("   ")

--"the calm reasoning of Aristotelian science"  (Carmen Lea Dege)

--"It's important to keep a few caveats in mind"  (Richard Conniff)

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