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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice. — Henry David Thoreau
It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with. — Kingsley Amis
There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am… — Jonathan Swift
I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a… — John Stuart Mill
My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. — Pete Sampras
I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him… — Elizabeth Bishop
It's kind of like sentencing. A lot of people say that we have a heavy sentence for this crime and a light sentence for another… — Rush Limbaugh
I was smart enough to use pot without getting caught, and now I'm on the Supreme Court. If you were stupid enough to get caught,… — Clarence Thomas
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. — Don DeLillo
In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant. — Paul Auster
It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. []… — William Faulkner
But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many… — Anne McCaffrey
Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. — Jeff Greenfield
And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start… — Jeff Daniels
It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-- "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but… — Charles Spurgeon
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal… — David Foster Wallace
In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And do you not… — Tertullian
I was on my bus, and on my bus I have a yoga swing. Jennifes comes on, and she goes, ' Hi, Woody, I'm J---… — Woody Harrelson
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader must plod through… — Barbara Tuchman
No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together. — Wilson Follett
From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages there is no… — Kate Bernheimer
I leave off mid-sentence, and then can finish it the next day with less anxiety expended than for a new thought. — Binnie Kirshenbaum
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it. — Plato
One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet, the age of… — Gene Veith

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