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“A strange, sometimes fortuitous, sometimes tragic, aspect of being a human being is that we are born of parents and exist as a fruit cocktail of their personalities and genes.” #sundaysentence Tanya Pearson’s Why Marianne Faithfull Matters

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"Everybody wants to die normally, you know?" from Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks #Sundaysentence

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This must be the most pro-corruption Administration in the history of the Republic.

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May In May I truly think it best to be a robin lightly dressed concocting soup inside my nest. Mix it once mix it twice mix that chicken soup with rice. #MauriceSendak #May #chickensoupwithrice

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"[The Catholic Church] is easily the most important institution in the history of Western civilization, as well as one of the most complex and secretive." from Jesus Wept: Seven Popes and the Battle for the Soul of the Catholic Church by Philip Shenon #Sundaysentence

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Senator Chris Van Hollen on Sunday accused the Trump administration of “outright defying” court orders to return a wrongly deported man to the U.S. from El Salvador, and he urged the administration to stop releasing unfavorable records about the man.

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“He entered clothes like opinions, with the graceful assurance of someone who has not questioned their choices.” Hal Ebbott, AMONG FRIENDS #sundaysentence

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"Once, you were translucent; you stood between / me and the source; you tempered the light, became / the light I chose to see by... You took the valuables when you left.. Disconnected you vanished." From "Unplugged" by Marie Ponset in Collected Works (2016) #SundaySentence #Poetry

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#SundaySentence From David Abrams’ Sunday Sentence project, readers share the best sentence they’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without comment.”

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"One plus one equals two unless you are counting, say, drops of water, in which case one plus one can equal one, or it can equal a fine mist." –a #SundaySentence from T. Bone Burnett's review of "John & Paul: A love Story in Songs" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/b...

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"The gown hugged my contours, so I was again 18 and again a reflection of my mother, bending time, a history helixing backwards." #SundaySentence from Hands of a Maker by Rayya Liebich (2024 @hippocampusmag.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/bde4566n

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No place, in theory, is boring of itself. Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. ~William Least Heat-Moon, BLUE HIGHWAYS #SundaySentence

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“Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.” from Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry (I'm on a Wendell Berry kick and what a wonderful ride it is!)

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“The Earth has music for those who listen.” William Shakespeare Are you listening?

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"Death is a sort of lens, though I used to think of it as a wall or a shut door. It changes things and makes them clear. Maybe it is the truest way of knowing this dream, this brief and timeless life.” #Sundaysentence (s) From Hannah Coutler by Wendell Berry

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Reported by CBS News: Justice Sotomayor noted in her opinion on the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to an El Salvador prison that the arguments put forth by the Trump admin. could likewise be used to deport uncharged US citizens to God-knows-where. She was the only one brave enough to say it.

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“I rise tonight because to be silent at this moment of national crisis would be a betrayal, and because at stake in this moment is nothing less than everything that makes us who we are.” ~ @booker.senate.gov We should all be Corys.

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“Just because we want an explanation… just because we need an explanation… doesn’t mean the universe is obliged to provide one.” John Scalzi When the Moon Hits Your Eye #SundaySentence

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April In April I wil go away to far off Spain or old Bombay and dream about hot soup all day. Oh my oh once oh my oh twice oh my oh chicken soup with rice. #mauricesendak #april #chickensoupwithrice

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"History often repeats - especially when it's ignored." William Falk, Editor-at-large, The Week Magazine 03/14/2025 #SundaySentence

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My #sundaysentence today is from this great story in the NYT: “When you find someone as nerdy as you are about the Oxford comma, you find you have plenty of other things in common.” (My tribe! I rage against non-serial-comma users…like you, NYT!)

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If life had taught them anything, it was that a person's path still could be lit by moments of joy, even after unspeakable loss. #SundaySentence from Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson. #booksky

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"Perhaps if he had offered her a glass of wine instead, the day would have unfolded quite differently, but it is by these small acts that relationships are made and unmade." From the book Shy Creatures by Claire Chambers #Sundaysentence

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Looking for something long and entertaining to counteract the news, I've started the books of The Expanse, beginning with Leviathan Wakes, which provides today's #sundaysentence: "You've got a pit bull on one side of you and a rottweiler on the other, first thing you do is drop your steak."

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Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

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"Sometimes when I find out what's on other people's minds I honestly wonder if we all live on totally different planets." Anne Tyler in Three Days in June #SundaySentence

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