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You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up. — Toni Morrison
Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face… — Jane Austen
To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and… — Anna Kavan
But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death.… — Plato
His intelligence only exacerbated the guilt Kugel felt for bringing him into the world. It was one thing to have condemned a child to life,… — Shalom Auslander
I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night… — Simone de Beauvoir
Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK. — Diana Athill
I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word. I compare it… — Harriet Doerr
You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal. — James A. Baldwin
Speak and live in simple sentences. Bring closure -- put a period to -- those experiences that you don't want to carry on forever and… — Iyanla Vanzant
Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living from writing sentences.… — John Banville
Either CS (coordinate system) could be used with equal justification. The two sentences: the sun is at rest and the earth moves, or the sun… — Albert Einstein
In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your… — Mitch Albom
I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction. — Tahereh Mafi
I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page… — Henning Mankell
The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence: 'Do not harm others.' — Dalai Lama
If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say that logic is the systematic… — Willard Van Orman Quine
Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes. — Virginia Woolf
Don't get discouraged if you're hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming out wrong. You're allowed to… — Tana French
The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds. — Philip Johnson
Manny Pacquiao I'm calling you out let's fight May 5th and give the world what they want to see. My Jail Sentence was pushed back… — Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Express your most powerful thought in the shortest sentence. — Roy Peter Clark
Writing has been an important exercise to clarify what I believe, what I see, what I care about, what my deepest values are ... the… — Barack Obama
This is the doctrine that we preach; if a man be saved, all the honor is to be given to Christ; but if a man… — Charles Spurgeon
I write the first sentence and trust in God for the next. — Laurence Sterne

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