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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, 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…

Perfect Sentences, 188

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Published: August 2, 2026 13:14

Hello to the new subscribers who recently joined because of Robin, whose continued championing of this newsletter is very appreciated. I want computer to work on hair. Andrés Cuervo giving a talk at Brooklyn Web Workers There are no sex scenes, and all…

Perfect Sentences, 187

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Published: July 26, 2026 13:36

A correction: last week I got Alex Sujong Laughlin's name wrong. Many regrets for the error. A baby, absolutely shellacked with drool, tried to befriend the puppet. "Getting Off With the Luddites", Sarah Thankam Mathews for n+1 Mita submitted this from…

Perfect Sentences, 186

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Published: July 19, 2026 13:58

Thanks to submitters for carrying this week's entry, it has been a very distracted week for me. Raising awareness is the donor-facing euphemism for freaking out as many people as possible without affecting material conditions. "Dodging evitable futures,…