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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. — Edgar Allan Poe

What was Aristotle's life?' Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: 'He was born, he thought, he died.' And all the rest is pure anecdote. — Martin Heidegger

And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze. — Oscar Wilde

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home. — Len Wein

I was a great believer in hot buttered toast at all hours of the day. — Frank O'Connor

What kind of writer are you?" You can't think of a single sentence that would satisfy Hyong-chol. Your — Kyung-Sook Shin

The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting. — Malik Bendjelloul

When God says no, we are sometimes tempted to wonder if He loves us. In reality, it's because He loves us, He sometimes says no. — Lysa TerKeurst

I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing. — Keith Gessen

Before you can write a single sentence, you must first create an entire world to support it. — Adam Santo

May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second! — Gustave Flaubert

So afraid of taking chances. How you gonna reach the top? — Greyson Chance

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman. — Ambrose Bierce

On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence. — John Updike

You only spoke a single line,
yet it felt like a life sentence. — Timothy Joshua

Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course. — Joseph Joubert

Sometimes a single sentence can be enough to fill the imagination completely. And sometimes a book's title is enough. — Sarah Manguso

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. — Robert Breault

Heartbreak is the natural habitat of the Beta Male. — Christopher Moore

*Paying one's last respects* is about the payer, not the paid. (Who attends the funeral - and who doesn't - is the deceased's last worry.) — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The terrible price of living, ain't it? To live through others dying? — J.D. Jordan

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man. — Paulo Coelho

I love you Jack.
A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
Jack, this is where we first met. — James Cameron

The revolution in cancer research can be summed up in a single sentence: cancer is, in essence, a genetic disease. - Bert Vogelstein — Siddhartha Mukherjee

If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship. — Terry Pratchett

As I pedal down the street ... the city blocks peel away like pages in a book I'm rifling through to find a single, highlighted sentence. — Hilary T. Smith

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together. — John Olsen

As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free. — Bodhidharma

Being single is not a death sentence. — Philip Siegel

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

We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive. — Jesse Jackson

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

I had learned at last to not project my darkness onto those around me; — Tim Farrington