Sentence Quotes
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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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From the outside, it looks like this amendment to the complaint was merely for manipulating the sentence.
Alan Page
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It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
Kingsley Amis
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
Edgar Allan Poe
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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.
Conan O'Brien
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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
Lewis Carroll
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Thomas A. Edison
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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.
Confucius
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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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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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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.
Ernest Gowers
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A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!
Berton Braley
