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- Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. — Mark Twain
- It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just… — Mark Twain
- 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
- The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of… — Robertson Davies
- From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter… — Lewis H. Lapham
- A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a… — Donna Leon
- Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go. — David Mitchell
- Why?" she screamed. "Are you crazy? You know the English subjunctive, you understand trigonometry, you can read Marx, and you don't know… — Haruki Murakami