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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the… — Lysander Spooner
Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. — Cat Stevens
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and… — William Strunk, Jr.
Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on… — Herbert Bayard Swope
Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and… — Kristin Scott Thomas
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. — James Thurber
Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write… — Alice Walker
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation… — Neale Donald Walsch
In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home. — Len Wein
Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree… — Ai Weiwei
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition… — Alfred North Whitehead
The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys do, and women… — Helen Fisher
All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much. — Colm Toibin
The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing… — Colm Toibin
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love… — William Goldman
Equations are the devil's sentences. — Stephen Colbert
I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had… — Samuel Beckett
A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called time; a book… — Tom Robbins
[her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from a dropper could… — Steve Martin
The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness! — Evelyn Waugh
Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise… — Emily Bronte
Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd… — Woody Allen
It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to… — Wilferd Peterson

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