Sentence Quotes
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I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.
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It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
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The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a masterpiece. The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation, you can make of it what you will.
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The most beautiful novel is the one that starts with a sentence wholly unexpected by the reader who has lived through our storms and norms, and who might once have been the cause of our changing moods.
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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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This is serious, if Martha gets the maximum sentence on all counts, she could serve 20 years in prison. Of course, you have to take off time off for good behavior, which means 20 years in prison.
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
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In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
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A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!
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For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.
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That it is a solecism to begin a sentence with 'and' is a faintly lingering superstition. The OED gives examples ranging from the 10th to the 19th c.; the Bible is full of them.
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In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet - with all my favorite elements of literature: a sense of flow, of propulsion, of wanting to read every sentence.
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If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
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People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.
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Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence, you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is. Where they come from never goes dry. It is an always flowing spring.
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I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.
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Make no a complete sentence.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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There was only one sentence in it. ‘Tell no one about the 99 steps. Monsieur Neuf’!”
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You call my Wall Street words "cuss words"... I call them "sentence enhancers".
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One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet, the age of persecution was the greatest period of church growth in history.
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For one thing, she was fairly certain that any sentence that used more exclamation points than words was an abomination.
