I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive."

James Agee

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672 You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition
701 When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.
658 We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.
688 This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky
673 The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

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