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user-inactivated  ·  4061 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's the single greatest sentence ever written in the English language?

I turned to hubski in large part for a) its knowledge of poetry and b) its ability to think beyond the classics.

However, I definitely consider Vonnegut a "great," just an unconventional one. So it goes in particular illustrates that the power of a sentence has everything to do with context and nothing to do with word count or vocabulary.