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I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences. — Gary Soto

He bears wounds only seen with the heart and the scars that have formed over the years still pain him. — Regan Walker

They murdered him. — Robert Cormier

Tragedies in hindsight look like farces. — Julian Barnes

I have Tiger Blood running through my vains. — Charlie Sheen

What is blood but the wine of life? — Vera Nazarian

Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw on their own life, but all actors do. — Edoardo Ponti

People who make lots of money at what they do should just shut up about it. — Debra Winger

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down. — Winston Churchill

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual. — Jeremy Bentham

I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful. — Rae Hachton

Go home all you boys who fought with me and help build up the shattered fortunes of our old state — Robert E.Lee

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one. — Herbert Bayard Swope

Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative. — Ernest Hemingway,

I am damned,' thinks Bunny Munro in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those who are soon to die. — Nick Cave

When its dark enough you can see the stars. — Charles A. Beard

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them. — Karen Thompson Walker

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students. — Alan Perlis

Phoenix song is magical: it is reputed to increase the courage of the pure of heart and to strike fear into the heart of the impure. — J.K. Rowling

If you're going to read this, don't bother. — Chuck Palahniuk

As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing else will ever change it. — Ronee Blakley

I spoke the language the sentences that had lied their grandfathers and sent their grandmothers to the worlds first concentration camps. — Bryce Courtenay

I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead. — Henry Miller

Take your dreams and the promises God has put in your heart, and every day declare that they will come to pass. — Joel Osteen

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor. — Hesiod

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. — Charlotte Bronte

First sentences are doors to worlds. — Ursula K. Le Guin

One of my favorite first sentences of a
book is from Rebecca, Last night I dreamt
I went to Manderley again. — Daphne Du Maurier

After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper. — Michael Cox

Vocabulary and coherent sentences can't be downloaded onto paper unless they've first been uploaded to the head - by reading. — Jim Trelease