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And at the end of his letter one terrible sentence.
'If I loved you I would have written differently. — Alice Munro

Celestina Giuliani learned the word "slander" at her cousin's baptism. — Mary Doria Russell

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence. — John Green

Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole. — John Mortimer

The last sentence in a piece is another adventure. It should open the piece up. — Joan Didion

The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow. — Claudia Rankine

Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a plot point in every sentence. — Chuck Palahniuk

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years. — Richard Powers

The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H. — Dan Savage

There is nothing so banal in the world,' said Ada 'than pitching stones at a hawfinch. — Vladimir Nabokov

I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport. — Haruki Murakami

Never believe anything that can be summarized in one sentence. — Bill Dargen

This sentence is not true — Douglas Adams

Autism is not a death sentence but a rich fulfilled life sentence so to speak. — Janet Walmsley

I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story. — Amy Hempel

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?' — Stanley Fish

Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir! — Amity Gaige

Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence. — Adrian Grenier

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If you're reading this sentence then you've pretty much got it. Good job. Just keep going the way you are. — Demetri Martin

Huguet, on the other hand, insisted that prosecutors settle for nothing less than a lengthy sentence at the state penitentiary in Deer Lodge. — Jon Krakauer

Life as we know it is a death sentence. — Joseph Curiale

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning also. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

First snow: it came this year late in November. — John Updike

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It' her life, and she' in the middle of it. — Esmeralda Santiago

Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired. — Woody Allen

A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous. — Gustave Flaubert

We were on our way to the colmado for an errand. — Junot Diaz

When a naked man shows up on your doorstep with a bear trap clamped around his ankle, it's best just to do what he asks — Molly Harper

I once asked him what came at the end of the sentence ... and he said "parole". — Bobby Heenan

I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel. — Haruki Murakami

The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life. — Victor Hugo

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence. — Jasper Fforde

Cancer is a word, not a sentence. — John Diamond

I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. — Amy Hempel

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. — J.K. Rowling

I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways. — Fran Lebowitz

A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is What would love do now? — Neale Donald Walsch

The secret of success lies in this simple sentence: Why not? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence — Cathy Crimmins

There is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written. — Ellen G. White

Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered. — Alfred North Whitehead

How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it! — Lennox Lewis

A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb. — Joseph Beach

The only antidote to anger is to eliminate the internal sentence: "If only you were more like me." — Wayne Dyer

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. — C.S. Lewis

Hope is nice. Fucking useless in this situation, but still nice. You have one sentence before you start bleeding. Make it good. — Lauren Stewart

Start by using this sentence for all of your wants: "I'm so happy and grateful now that ... " — Rhonda Byrne

John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?' — Tom Robbins

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity. — Marianne Moore

Sam LeClaire was a good-looking son of a bitch. — Rachel Gibson

Is it something I said?" Jane asked. And if so, which sentence? There had been so many of them, after all. — Courtney Milan

Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence. — King Vidor

What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read. — Linda Ronstadt

From above, start with the privileged view. — Maureen Howard

If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one. — Arthur Brisbane

They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. — Jean Rhys

Never hire anyone who starts a sentence with the word "Dude!" and never work for a guy who doesn't know the difference between mute and moot — Larry Brooks

God knew that creating mankind was a death sentence for Jesus, but He created us anyway. — Vance C. Kessler

I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke. — Julian Clary

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. — Friedrich Engels

A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time. — Ryan Lilly

When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is. — Gertrude Stein

The best sentence? The shortest. — Anatole France

At school I was careful not to look like I watched everything, but I did. — Amanda Davis

It was more than a kiss ... it was a sentence of unbroken kisses, the hot sweet syllables of lips and tongue making her drunk on sensation. — Lisa Kleypas

Here's my using dickwad in a sentence. Greg is such a dickwad, he locks his car in the Pagoda Pizza parking lot. (No. That isn't a real Vocab word.) — A.S. King

I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words. — Steve Martin

CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble. — Audrey Niffenegger

Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve. — Roald Dahl

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction. — Salman Rushdie

I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence. — M T Anderson

There once was a woman named Story Easton who couldn't decide if she should kill herself, or eat a double cheeseburger. — Elizabeth Leiknes

People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit. — Georgette Heyer

If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance. — Sterling W. Sill

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self. — Cyril Connolly

I wonder what kind of sound it would make if I were to smash this glass against the side of his head. — Colleen Hoover

Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath. — Stefan Bachmann

Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending. — David Bayles

The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word 'rather' in a sentence. — Christian Finnegan

I try and get it right the first time. I may rewrite a sentence four or five times, but I rarely go back and kill a whole page and rewrite it. — Matt Ridley

Like the one-sentence paragraph, the second-person point of view can also make us suspect that style is being used as a substitute for content. — Francine Prose

The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon. — William Golding

It seems unlikely that so much literature
could be made from twenty-six letters.
Doesn't it seem it could all be boiled
down to one sentence? — Brenda Shaughnessy

Every sentence must do one of two things: reveal character or advance the action. — Kurt Vonnegut

We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk. — David Mitchell

Health is a Lifestyle, not a Life Sentence. — Tora Cullip

Jerrie Cobb reached down and pulled the heavy layers of arctic clothing over her navy blue linen dress. — Martha Ackmann

Some things you sentence yourself to life for. — Donna Lynn Hope

My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old. — Robertson Davies

The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick. — Rob Bell

Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rode to glory on the back of the strong declarative sentence. — William Zinsser

Just mention wine and pizza together in the same sentence and I'll come running. — Rich Amooi

I don't think of any sentence as a "one-liner", but I do pay attention to how people actually speak when they are being funny. Rhythm is key. — Lorrie Moore

If a sentence were a picket fence, the serial commas would be posts at regular intervals. — Anonymous

No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed. — Kurt Vonnegut

There's only three things he mentions in a sentence
a noun, a verb, and 9/11. — Joe Biden

People will summarize your life in one sentence - Pick it now. — John C. Maxwell

Imagine a sentence as a hall with a series of doors. Each door is a possible way to use what you've already written to generate new material. — Kim Addonizio