Great sentences

[wtg]

I read this in a New Yorker piece this morning. It's from the diary of one of the writers who was born the same year as the magazine was founded, 1925.

It's a beautiful sentence.

The erratic motion of a yellow butterfly is immune to artificial intelligence.

Calvin Tomkins

[Daniel]

This sentence has been on my mind lately, the last sentence of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby":

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."