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For what need would I have to say, 'I believe,' if I already knew?

(from The Church is One) — Aleksey Khomiakov

I remember the rule for semicolons; the sentences on both sides have to be full ones. — Hugh Howey

Is there any beauty like the bliss of being? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Pretentious and over-active semicolons have reached epidemic proportions in the world of academe, where they are used to gloss over imprecise thought. — Lynne Truss

I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is. — Matthew Arnold

Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal. — Viktor E. Frankl

I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now. — Ursula K. Le Guin

You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life. — George Bernard Shaw

I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, I should have used fewer semicolons — Lynne Truss

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn't show yet. — John C. Maxwell

Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index. — Jasper Fforde

Let me note that Kilgore Trout and I have never used semicolons. They don't do anything, don't suggest anything. They are transvestite hermaphrodites. — Kurt Vonnegut

Something I chose to forget because it didn't fit in with how shit everything was. — Patrick Ness

The really pop country stuff can sound a little bland because they put in strings and horns and all of that. — Joe Perry

Great. They fucked with my punctuation?" "Pam says you're overly fond of semicolons. — M. Pierce

The secret is you need a director who refuses to walk away and you need a director willing to put their whole career behind the project. — Ruba Nadda

I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc. — John Clare

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses. — George Eliot

If colons and semicolons give themselves airs and graces, at least they also confer airs and graces that the language would be lost without. — Lynne Truss

It's almost like being trapped in some other form. The real me is so different from the way I look on the outside. — Dolly Parton

We don't know what to do with sadness. That's the problem. We want to put it out of the way and we can't. — Rachel Joyce

A story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes. — George Orwell

Lust fades after climax, love lasts until breakfast! — Tom Conrad

God condemns those who oppress and take advantage of others. — Jim George