What interests me now is the transformation undergone by the soil, now bound up in words.
Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies, Bruno Latour
As our transport reentered the Habitat, the first fresh view of that great empty space was enough to reintroduce me to the digestive effects of soul-searing vertigo.
Emissaries From the Dead, Adam-Troy Castro
Keith submitted a whole paragraph but I picked this one.
Death is a strange bird and I am a Pontiac.
"Psychedelics III: My Apothecary Light", Roomful of Teeth
Not feeling smart this week, or maybe just less interested in words.
Submitted by Wesley.
you sound like a 40 year old trying to kiss a barista
The full context is pretty funny but alone, incredible. I realize I may have a "type" when it comes to inane twitter burns.
My beloved Silver Lady is a total loss due to a complete failure of the entire system.
"How to sell a vehicle for salvage in California?", Metafilter
Submitted by Bill, with the following commentary: "I love this sentence because "complete failure of the entire system" is a claim that I kind of want to understand more deeply? But no: it opaquely lays claim to all possibilities. The failure is utter; the scope, unbounded."
At the end of capitalism, which is eager to outlive its day, there is Hitler.
Discourse on Colonialism, Aimé Césaire (translated by Joan Pinkham)
A couple of other great sentences from this:
What impure and worldly geography!
By Jove, my dear colleagues (as they say), I take off my hat to you (a cannibal's hat, of course).
Robin D.G. Kelley's introduction also offers some stellar sentences. Here is my favorite: