The eleven best sentences in literature

The editors of The American Scholar tagged their ten (plus one bonus) best sentences, including:In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his belly, slow of foot but always plodding along, always there when you needed him, a believer in the virtues of simplicity and directness and hard labor.

—Tim O’Brien, The Things They