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My brother the vampire, whose kiss was a slow death sentence, had a stable and loving relationship with a girl who was crazy about him.… — Jim Butcher
I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper was by Dorothy… — Paul Halmos
And how deeply do I let business considerations affect [screenwriting] choices that might otherwise be more or less esthetic? . . . Do I choose… — Edward Zwick
The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it overflows with comfort.… — Charles Spurgeon
Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny. — Freeman Dyson
No sentence can be effective if it contains facts alone. It must also contain emotion, image, logic, and promise. — Eugene Schwartz
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to… — Lionel Trilling
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. — Samuel Johnson
The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold. — Jhumpa Lahiri
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to… — James Dickey
Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book. — James J. Kilpatrick
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. On… — Don DeLillo
Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence—a noun, a verb, and 9/11 — Joe Biden
I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the… — Leonard Cohen
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases… — Benjamin Disraeli
Acrid bitterness inevitably seeps into the lives of people who harbor grudges and suppress anger, and bitterness is always a poison. It keeps your pain… — Lee Strobel
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components, — William Zinsser
Make no a complete sentence. — Amy Poehler
There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed,… — Harper Lee
High Concept means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito… — Martin Cruz Smith
Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea… — Charles James
I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either. — Larry Wall
I think hope is not simply looking around and saying that everything’s great – that’s just ridiculous. For hope to have substance, it has to… — Tim Foreman
I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school… — Eli Roth
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle… — Penelope Lively

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