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A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his…

— Dick Cavett

A great man is one sentence.

— Clare Boothe Luce

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a…

— Jeremy Bentham

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look…

— Anonymous

The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite...

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into…

— Adam Ross

I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry on the…

— John Steinbeck

I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

— Ernest Hemingway

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should…

— William Strunk, Jr

The last sentence of a book is, of course, where you have to stop.

— Susan Sontag

I'll have a sentence in my head that's kind of beautiful and interesting, but I'm not sure why or where it's coming from. So…

— Don Hertzfeldt