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Sentence Quotes by John Irving
- A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
- If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the…
- And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known…
- Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the story, what kind…
- And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the…
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- If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence. — John Banville
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- Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so… — Jean Baudrillard
- You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal. — Lewis Black
- 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
- Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche… — Jackson Browne
- 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