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Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice. — Henry David Thoreau
It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with. — Kingsley Amis
Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave… — Zadie Smith
I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box… — Elliott Smith
There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am… — Jonathan Swift
It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did… — John Humphrys
If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences,… — Albert Ellis
If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and… — Albert Ellis
I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a… — John Stuart Mill
When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I… — Joan Didion
Sentences in which I have tried for a certain light tone -- many of those have to do with events, upheavals, destructions that caused me… — Elizabeth Hardwick
My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. — Pete Sampras
I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him… — Elizabeth Bishop
It's kind of like sentencing. A lot of people say that we have a heavy sentence for this crime and a light sentence for another… — Rush Limbaugh
I was smart enough to use pot without getting caught, and now I'm on the Supreme Court. If you were stupid enough to get caught,… — Clarence Thomas
It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with… — Stan Getz
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. — Don DeLillo
In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant. — Paul Auster
It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. []… — William Faulkner
But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many… — Anne McCaffrey
Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. — Jeff Greenfield
And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start… — Jeff Daniels
It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-- "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but… — Charles Spurgeon
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal… — David Foster Wallace
In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And do you not… — Tertullian

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