Sentence Quotes
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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
Lewis Carroll
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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.
Ahlam Mosteghanemi
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From the outside, it looks like this amendment to the complaint was merely for manipulating the sentence.
Alan Page
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I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .
John Stuart Mill
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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.
Lewis H. Lapham
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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.
Claude Simon
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For one thing, she was fairly certain that any sentence that used more exclamation points than words was an abomination.
Courtney Milan
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A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!
Berton Braley
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Niels Bohr
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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.
Michael Finkel
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There was only one sentence in it. ‘Tell no one about the 99 steps. Monsieur Neuf’!”
Carolyn Keene
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The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how we come to become speakers. Writers you admire, you admire the way they plot, you admire the way they create a character, you admire the way they put a sentence together, those are the writers you should be reading.
Rick Yancey
