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It didn’t seem to him, though, on this morning in the Faraways, such an unfortunate thing, that kind of small-town determinism. True, he had himself clambered out of it as fast as he could and into the Great World seeking growing-room and air to breathe; but he had in fact languished in the city, not growing but shrinking over time into a strange form of invisibility.
Almost no one that he’d known there knew anyone else he had known, and so to each new acquaintance Pierce was able to present a separate and partial character, an ad hoc personality specially adapted to the circumstances (bar, bookstore, Brooklyn) but too flimsy to support more than a single other person at close range…
— John Crowley, The Solitudes
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For now, the closest either of us could get to recovering anything was an earnest attempt at making sense of what it was we did. To put a frame around it. Give it structure. Call it having a job. Call it a fresh start. Fresh ran contrary to vague, and that could only be a good thing.
— Philip Davison, The Long Suit
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The best way to make sense of the Second Amendment is to take away all the commas (which, I know, means that only outlaws will have commas). Without the distracting commas, one can focus on the grammar of the sentence.
— Adam Freedman, Clause and Effect
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