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- This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen. — Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it. — Eric Partridge
- There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too. — Laurence J. Peter
- Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another. — Frederick Lenz
- There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens. — Mary Norris
- Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit. — Augustus William Hare
- Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips… — Martin Gardner
- American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen. — Toni Morrison