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I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison… — Andrew Fastow
Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isnâ€™t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for comfort. But Henry… — Susan Howe
Whose order is shut inside the structure of a sentence? — Susan Howe
Alethea Black can drop you into a dream with a single sentence, then convince you it's real. Her characters' best hopes and worst fears usually… — Unknown Author
The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it — Unknown Author
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice. — Henry David Thoreau
It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with. — Kingsley Amis
There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am… — Jonathan Swift
I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a… — John Stuart Mill
My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. — Pete Sampras
I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him… — Elizabeth Bishop
It's kind of like sentencing. A lot of people say that we have a heavy sentence for this crime and a light sentence for another… — Rush Limbaugh
I was smart enough to use pot without getting caught, and now I'm on the Supreme Court. If you were stupid enough to get caught,… — Clarence Thomas
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. — Don DeLillo
In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant. — Paul Auster
It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. []… — William Faulkner
But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many… — Anne McCaffrey
Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. — Jeff Greenfield
And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start… — Jeff Daniels

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