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- In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally in speech-that is,…
- Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a riot. Some day,…
- My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin…
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- Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. — Niels Bohr
- I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer… — Anthony Bourdain
- When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up. — Albert Brooks
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- If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence. — Charles Bukowski
- 'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence? — George Carlin
- I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a… — Thomas Carlyle
- Sentence first, verdict afterwards. — Lewis Carroll