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The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could… — William Zinsser
Oh, sweet the joy this sentence gives: â€˜I know that my Redeemer lives!â€™ — Thomas S. Monson
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage. — Carl Hiaasen
Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with… — John Fowles
In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model… — John Tukey
I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger existence and a… — Jane Hirshfield
Bedeviled, / human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words / that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that… — Marie Howe
I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely… — Howard Dean
The information contained in an English sentence or computer software does not derive from the chemistry of the ink or the physics of magnetism, but… — Stephen C. Meyer
I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it — Clifford Geertz
Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a riot. Some day,… — Elwyn Brooks White
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. — James Schuyler
George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence. — Unknown Author
For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to… — Lewis Carroll
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder… — J I Packer
Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous… — J I Packer
The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence. — Byron White
That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way… — Laurence Sterne

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