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The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary… — Margaret Atwood
The Code of the Vampires decreed that anyone who violated the Sacred Law was condemned to death, the blood burning. Charles had refused to subject… — Melissa de la Cruz
I sat down and tried to write a story. "Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wears glasses and peers out of them with… — Stephen Chbosky
Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who only cried at… — Erma Bombeck
He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic… — Milan Kundera
Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie story with rats… — Laurie Halse Anderson
I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once. — John Coltrane
This is the end of our sentence — Grant Morrison
Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence. — Ernest Hemingway
While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a plane to meet… — Jeanette Winterson
For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor a… — Jens Peter Jacobsen
If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their… — Ray Bradbury
Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said… — Margaret Atwood
His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action. — Jennifer Crusie
I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy. — Orson Scott Card
Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and… — Anita Shreve
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. — Malcolm Gladwell
The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences. — Markus Zusak
Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You… — Salman Rushdie
...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is. — George R. R. Martin
There was alliteration happening all over the place in that sentence. — Moira J. Moore
As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty… — Michael Palin
The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce… — Malcolm Gladwell

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