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- In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount… — Fran Lebowitz
- It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example… — Bergen Evans
- One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour. A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
- How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to… — B. C. Forbes
- Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens… — Jules Renard
- When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get… — George Bernard Shaw
- The way the moon dashes through clouds that blow Loosely as cannon-smoke... Is a reminder of the strength and pain Of being… — Philip Larkin
- She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. — Jeffrey Eugenides
- I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the… — Tom Wolfe
- We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats...are chafing each other, as they are tossed… — John Wesley Powell