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…when writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence…in love, never settle…value yourself first and this will help you to value others…life is short,… — Spider Robinson
Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against it. It puts… — Czeslaw Milosz
No" is a complete sentence. — Anne Lamott
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be… — Abraham Lincoln
I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to… — Johnny Depp
I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me. — Matt Groening
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. — Ernest Hemingway
I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it… — Philip Roth
How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put… — John Steinbeck
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method. — James Thurber
I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced.… — Barack Obama
If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt.… — John McPhee
In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now… — Ian Mcewan
Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior. — Orson Scott Card
The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence. — David Sedaris
the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you… — Joseph Campbell
It was in the spring that Josephine and I had first loved each other, or, at least, had first come into the full knowledge that… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write,… — Brenda Ueland
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a… — George Orwell
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So… — Ayn Rand
I have the death sentence in seven genres. — Jasper Fforde
A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and… — Henry David Thoreau
I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it. — Bill Bryson
A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails… — Billy Collins

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