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A knife!" I yelled, still brandishing my pillow. "Jim, I command you to get me a gelding knife. If this guy wants to be a… — Katie MacAlister
Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple one-sentence query, the answer to which unlocks a motherlode of information about the person you just met....… — Eric Weiner
The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and outright subversion. The… — Brennan Manning
Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine.… — Alexandre Dumas
Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically… — Robert A. Heinlein
Aunt Mercy put down her tiles, one at a time. I-T-C-H-I-N. Aunt Grace leaned closer to the board, squinting. "Mercy Lynne, you're cheatin' again! What… — Margaret Stohl
His mother?" Gracie couldn't believe it. Suzy Denton looked much too young to be his mother. And much too respectable. "But you're not a-" She… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
How could one sentence uttered in anger cause so much damage? But then words were the most powerful thing in the universe. Cuts and bruises… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading… — William Safire
The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial,… — Douglas Adams
I recently forced myself to read a book on quantum physics, just to try and learn something new. I was confused by the middle of… — Stephan Pastis
Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand. — T.E. Lawrence
Good God. I don’t believe St. Vincent and the word ‘celibacy’ have ever been mentioned in the same sentence before. — Lisa Kleypas
A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if… — Henry David Thoreau
I’m busy sorting through our new collection of rhinestone jewelry. Should anyone be in the market for sparkly accessories the size of a hubcap, this… — Jen Lancaster
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into… — George R. R. Martin
Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence. — Aravind Adiga
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line,… — Alberto Manguel
Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn't necessary in a long-term relationship. Just… — Julia Cameron
You wrote this right?” he said. “It tells how to defeat Set.” Thoth unfolded the papyrus pages. “Oh, dear. I hate reading my old work.… — Rick Riordan
He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him… — James Joyce
The sentence completes its signification only with its last term. — Jacques Lacan
That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under… — Virginia Woolf
When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived… — John McPhee
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you… — Malcolm Gladwell

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