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“Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending – sit down.”

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“Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”

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Racism is ignorant. And it’s stupid. And it’s old. And it’s played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? ‘Let’s all get along’ – I’m so tired of that damn sentence, but it’s true.

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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

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Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.

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If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

Friends Jail Know Sentence
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Against Asked Bite Religion
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I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

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One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

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There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

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'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

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An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.

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It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died

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If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

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I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

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I'm not trying to be a poet on Twitter; I'm trying to be aware of the fact that a very simple sentence, well written, can have a very moving effect without that person knowing why. There's a deep genetic part of you that somehow, even without your permission, recognizes good language when it arrives.

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The first sentence of a book is a promise.

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In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

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“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning”
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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Even His Man Originality
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

Affirmation Every Must Question
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To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

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I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

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In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

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Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?

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Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

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You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a long time. I weigh the words and the sentences. I weigh the paragraphs. The process is much more meditative for me.

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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

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Across the nation, there are thousands of individuals serving life or life-equivalent sentences for crimes they committed as children. This means they will likely die in prison without a chance to prove to society they are worthy of a second chance.

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Call me radical but to me the best punishment for a rapist is death sentence.

Call me Radical Best punishment Rapist
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Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.

Never know One sentence Life story Inspire someone
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When I consider the amazing diversity of race and that we are born equal-only to find that the color of one’s skin sentences us to a life of injustice. I ask myself-I ask all of you-how can we possibly continue to turn the other way?

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Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.

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Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

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The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

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