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title: "4 Reading Sentences Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-mayberry/i-think-in-reading-a-few-sentences-of-text-you-can-just-tell-the-tone/)

[Lauren Mayberry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-mayberry/)

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> [I think, in reading a few sentences of text, you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-mayberry/i-think-in-reading-a-few-sentences-of-text-you-can-just-tell-the-tone-2/)

[Lauren Mayberry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-mayberry/)

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> [“What I have learned from about twenty years of serious reading is this: It is sentences that change my life, not books.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-piper/what-i-have-learned-from-about-twenty-years-of-serious-reading-is/)

[John Piper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-piper/)

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> [Meaning can be usually be approximated, but often by sacrificing style. When I review my translations into Spanish, that's what I'm most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-alarcon/meaning-can-be-usually-be-approximated-but-often-by-sacrificing-style/)

[Daniel Alarcon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-alarcon/)

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