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Sentence Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
- Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does…
- Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?.
- Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or…
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- 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