How about best shortest sentences? My favorite is Ring Lardner’s: Shut up, he explained. For five words Woody Allen: I am two with nature.
Please give us other candidates, either from others or your own. Here is my previous post on six-word novels.
From Wired, here are more six-word stories. I like:
He read his obituary with confusion.
And, from Orson Scott Card:
Please, this is everything, I swear.
Shamelessly begging, the Gates remained closed.
She approached the casket, envious.
I belong, above all else, below.
“Hello”, she lied.
Not my own, but a historical one appropriate to this page:
Free at last, free at last.
Glenn: The gates were begging? (I may misunderstand you.)
How about:
Shamelessly solicited, the Gateses said no.
Someone said this about India
“There is richness in her poverty”.
For those interested in religion or literature a very short, very beautiful sentence:
Jesus wept.
“Vaya con huevos, amigos”.
From Richard Russo, “Nobody’s Fool”
From Mohammed Ali, shortest poem:
Me;
We.
Haiku? Too cumbersome, mused BashŠ.
Les jeux sont faites
My own att:
Truth be told, he explained, I’m a compulsive liar
“Jesus wept”.
Dan Jenkins call that verse the greatest lede ever.
“This is a lie.”
Prove it.
I can’t tell Pentothal from Pentathlon.
“Jesus wept” appears in context on this page:
http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=John+11
Mann ist vas er isst. (Feuerbach)
(Man is what he eats.)
And now for something completely different:
Run Away! Run Away!
That’d be in the butt, Bob.
“Aldiborontiphoscophornio! Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?”
From Henry Carey’s farce Chrononhotonthologos circa 1743.
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