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Sentences Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
- Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does…
- Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?.
- Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that…
- 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…
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- Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. — Niels Bohr
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- When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up. — Albert Brooks
- My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal. — Geraldine Brooks
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- If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence. — Charles Bukowski