Sentence Quotes
1003 Sentence quotes by 732 unique authors
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I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Ah, I am the judge of dreams, and you are the judge of love. Well, I find you guilty of dreaming good dreams, and sentence…
— Orson Scott Card
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Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone,…
— Albert Camus
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I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.
— Rachel Cohn
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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…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Listen and learn: you need fourteen characters, minimum. Use random letters, not words. Here’s a tip: think of a sentence, and use the first letter…
— Julie James
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Hyacinth,” Lady Bridgerton said in a vaguely disapproving voice, “do try to speak in complete sentences.” Hyacinth looked at her mother with a surprised expression.…
— Julia Quinn
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I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable…
— Milan Kundera
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Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you…
— Hilary Mantel
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But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and…
— Ernest Hemingway
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The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
— George R. R. Martin
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The antique, almost primitive band he held between his fingers caught the sunlight, glinting silver. “I found this ring shortly after I was banished from…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Observations,” he says. “Four imperial Unseelie guards were the only commonality I was able to isolate endemic to both scenes.” They’d been standing, armed, at…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Valek: You know a death sentence hasn't kept us apart before. Yelena: Is that an order Valek? Valek: No, it's a promise!
— Maria V. Snyder
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There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Everyone contributes a word, a sentence, an image, but in the end it all makes sense: the happiness of one becomes the joy of all.
— Paulo Coelho
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Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines…
— Irvine Welsh
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The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never…
— Henry Hazlitt
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the…
— Alan Watts
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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…
— John Irving
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The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.
— Michael Ondaatje
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All I need is a badly mangled, irate sentence stalking me.
— Karen Marie Moning
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Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence, you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is. Where they come from never goes…
— Unknown Author
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It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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