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Pairs and trios

Two or more short sentences add cadence. They also separate ideas that would otherwise be more closely linked by a conjunction in a single sentence.

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

The period after invention stops the reader momentarily, abruptly separating what follows. Compare the effect with: Literature is invention, and fiction is fiction. Far less clear that you're dealing with two separate ideas, not two linked ones.

Busy on two phones at once trying to stem disaster, you had no time to turn and look. You didn't need to. You felt him.

We detest both words. We spit them at each other with the fury of hissing geese. We duck and dodge them.

I came. I saw. I conquered.
Of course, Cicero's tricolon for Caesar.

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