Subjunctive Quotes
10 quotes by 9 authors
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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
— Mark Twain
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It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think…
— Mark Twain
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Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.
— C J Cherryh
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The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins…
— Robertson Davies
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From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence --…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between…
— Donna Leon
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Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go.
— David Mitchell
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Why?" she screamed. "Are you crazy? You know the English subjunctive, you understand trigonometry, you can read Marx, and you don't know the answer to…
— Haruki Murakami
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It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
— Alan Bennett
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As you know, we're studying safe levels for arsenic in drinking water to base our decision on sound science, the scientists told us we need…
— George WBush
Who Wrote These Subjunctive Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 10 Subjunctive Quotes as follows: