Long Sentences Quotes
10 quotes by 10 authors
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Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Long sentences, awkward constructions, and fuzzy-wuzzy words that seem to apologize for daring to venture an opinion are part of the price the law reviews…
— Fred Rodell
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Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
— William Shenstone
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I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in…
— Roger Angell
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I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own…
— Lydia Davis
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Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words…
— Dr. Seuss
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If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all.…
— Félix J. Palma
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I know I have a problem with semi-colon abuse and have written page-long sentences. Nobody needs to be reading page-long sentences, at least not written…
— Jami Attenberg
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America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
— Bruce Jackson
Who Wrote These Long Sentences Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 10 Long Sentences Quotes as follows: