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This is a newsletter by Ingrid Burrington. Every Sunday, you get a collection of the best sentences I've come across all week. That's pretty much the whole idea. Pay what you want, if you can—this newsletter is not exactly part of my work hustle, but the distraction of financial anxiety does often contribute to my own sentences being merely pretty good rather than perfect.
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Perfect Sentences, 198
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Published: October 11, 2026 12:42
One day, as Runkel was being pushed across the street in her perambulator, she was overcome by such despair over her wretched life that she wanted nothing more than for a heavy lorry, a cattle truck, a thousand-kilo road-roller or a team with three…
Perfect Sentences, 197
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Published: October 4, 2026 13:29
A spare collection of sentences this week. Much of last weekend and this past week were devoted to mailing out the new edition of Networks of New York. Self-publishing always sounds like a great idea until you have hundreds of pre-orders to pack up and…
Perfect Sentences, 196
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Published: September 27, 2026 13:54
It’s true that I know at least four guys named Dave and none named Bank of America. "Paid Phones", Daniel Kolitz for The Baffler Using a subway ad to sell an AI trading agent to an “executive commuter” is like killing an ant with a shotgun. "Are Brain-Rot…
Perfect Sentences, 195
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Published: September 20, 2026 13:10
The absence of Annie Dillard sentences in this edition comes from the fact I was out of town and did not have access to my copies of her books. Most of you have probably run into the "give it away" sentence at this point in remembrances of her (a good…
Perfect Sentences, 194
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Published: September 13, 2026 13:32
In the matter of courage (a morally neutral virtue): whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday’s slaughter, they were not cowards. Susan Sontag's contribution to Talk of the Town the week after 9/11 for The New Yorker Everyone should have a…
Perfect Sentences, 193
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Published: September 6, 2026 14:57
By this point in your life, you have probably reached a decision on whether you find it enjoyable to watch movies in which people get eviscerated with a chain saw. Review of Onslaught by Kyle Smith in The Wall Street Journal See also: men jealous of…
Perfect Sentences, 192
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Published: August 30, 2026 12:30
This is in the For The Demons folder inside a subfolder named "Incomplete Demons." This Year: 365 Songs Annotated, John Darnielle I make a great play of consonants. Kenneth Branagh in an interview for TDR The sun was coming up through low clouds over the…
Perfect Sentences, 191
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Published: August 23, 2026 12:56
If all goes well, "BuzzBallz is turning two Pop-Tarts flavors into cocktails" will be the worst thing you hear all day. "Everything is computer", Andrew Womack for the newsletter The Morning News Submitted by Travis. Paul tried to ignore that feeling…
Perfect Sentences, 190
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Published: August 16, 2026 12:18
I've seen an uptick in subscribers recently coming from...search? Like, DuckDuckGo and Bing as the referral URL. This seems unlikely; I don't even know what search result or AI summary would bring up this newsletter. Apologies if some malign AI signed you…
Perfect Sentences, 189
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Published: August 9, 2026 13:48
You read the role like a horny snake in a newspaper cartoon. Oh, Mary!, Cole Escola A sentence that in theory I could have shared a year ago when I saw the play during the Titus Burgess run, but I didn't remember to at that time. We saw Meg Stalter in the…