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- It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is… — Lewis Thomas
- Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to… — George Will
- I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of… — Truman Capote
- She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There… — Helen Hodgman
- The medals no-one will ever wear should be the ones that reflect the most. It's not an ending, it's not a period… — Unknown Author
- I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated. — Brian P. Cleary
- If a period is a stop sign, then what kind of traffic flow is created by other marks? The comma is a… — Roy Peter Clark
- Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path… — Lewis Thomas
- What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and… — Lynne Truss
- I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and… — Ursula K. Le Guin
- How hideous is the semicolon. — Samuel Beckett
- A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself,… — Pico Iyer