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She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence. — Zadie Smith
Getting cut off from the knights' magic rock also required a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom. (Those of you in the Hushlands,… — Brandon Sanderson
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up… — George Eliot
Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Proofread carefully to see… — William Safire
If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him? — Neal Stephenson
The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary… — Margaret Atwood
The Code of the Vampires decreed that anyone who violated the Sacred Law was condemned to death, the blood burning. Charles had refused to subject… — Melissa de la Cruz
I sat down and tried to write a story. "Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wears glasses and peers out of them with… — Stephen Chbosky
He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic… — Milan Kundera
Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once. — John Coltrane
This is the end of our sentence — Grant Morrison
Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence. — Ernest Hemingway
While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a plane to meet… — Jeanette Winterson
For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor a… — Jens Peter Jacobsen
Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said… — Margaret Atwood
I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy. — Orson Scott Card
Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and… — Anita Shreve
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. — Malcolm Gladwell
...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is. — George R. R. Martin
There was alliteration happening all over the place in that sentence. — Moira J. Moore
As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty… — Michael Palin
The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce… — Malcolm Gladwell
And neither do I, asshole. (Wren) Wow. Multiple syllables and a whole sentence from the tiger. Who’d have ever thought it? Whoever she was, she… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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