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In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the vivid and particular:… — William Strunk, Jr.
Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes… — Scott Harshbarger
Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer… — Gil Garcetti
When I woke the next morning in my room at White's Motel, I showered and stood naked in front of the mirror, watching myself solemnly… — Cheryl Strayed
Start by using this sentence for all of your wants: "I'm so happy and grateful now that.... " — Rhonda Byrne
In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it could be worked… — E. M. Forster
I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be… — Meg Tilly
A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly. — John Irving
...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I… — George R. R. Martin
The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to… — Ernst Junger
...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out of your own… — Pat Conroy
The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to produce new sentences,… — Noam Chomsky
Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it’s a song, a stranger, a mountain, a tea kettle, an… — Zooey Deschanel
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a… — George Orwell
Oh, I know I'll improve. It's just that my life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes now. That's a sentence I read once, and… — Anne Shirley
In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about,… — Jhumpa Lahiri
There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. It's like trying to write… — Susan Orlean
Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries… — Annie Besant
Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect,… — Jack Abbott
That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was… — Ishmael Reed
All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. In these sentences… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole… — John Huston
Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four." — Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum… — Albert Wynn
I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion. — Jhumpa Lahiri

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