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If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an… — Arthur Eddington
Take it from me, marriage isn't a word - it's a sentence. — King Vidor
To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led… — John Ruskin
You should write, write, write every day, and learn to edit and pare it right back so you're proud of every sentence, and each one… — Caitlin Moran
Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail. — Clive James
Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die...… — George Ryan
There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. — Susan Orlean
You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next? — William Zinsser
I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life. — Tom Robbins
I say the sentences again and again in my head until they sound right. — Martin Amis
A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there… — Adriana Trigiani
There is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written. — Ellen G. White
We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim is to fight… — Felix Dzerzhinsky
I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together. — John Olsen
Don't put Banana and Hammock in the same sentence — Tony Horton
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them. — David Riesman
The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a… — Confucius
Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here. — Shane Koyczan
In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture the essence of… — Michael Dirda
I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences. — Dana Spiotta
Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together. — Rodman Philbrick
Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences. — Unknown Author
There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything. — Richard Flanagan
Life is terrorism, so spare me your indignation. Life is one big infiltration of our secure defenses. Some people put bombs on buses and blow… — Matt Rees
Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention. — Constance Hale

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