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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 anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!
— Evelyn Waugh
This was it. Together. Forever. As we left it all behind, the sun warmed my back, lighting the way before us. I knew of no better omen.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.
— Claudia Rankine
I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.
— Richard Powers
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
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
The end of an unclouded day. Almost a happy one. Just one of the 3,653 days of his sentence, from bell to bell. The extra three were for leap years.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
How To Read This BookIf you're reading this sentence then you've pretty much got it. Good job. Just keep going the way you are. — Demetri Martin
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
We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.
— Margaret Atwood
She was certain that the Vicario brothers were not as eager to carry out the sentence as to find someone who would do them the favor of stopping them.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I was brought up in a family of leaders, and I think leadership is a life sentence. I like changing things that will shape the future.
— Jenny Shipley
It' her life, and she' in the middle of it.
— Esmeralda Santiago
May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!
— Gustave Flaubert
We were on our way to the colmado for an errand.
— Junot Diaz
I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.
— Leonard Cohen
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
THE Right Honorable Edward Junius Carsington, Earl of Hargate, had five sons, which was three more than he needed.
— Loretta Chase
It's easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What's difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book you can write.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
'TIME's spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me.
— Richard Corliss
Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence.
— Victor Hugo
Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.
— Zadie Smith
She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.
— Virginia Woolf
On a mountain above the clouds once lived a man who had been the gardener of the emperor of Japan.
— Tan Twan Eng
The house in which the fourteen sisters of Emilio Montez O'brien lived, radiated femininity.
— Oscar Hijuelos
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If [a short story author's] very initial sentence tend not to the out bringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Jean Paul Sartre says that 'Hell is other people!' In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: 'Heaven is other people too!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Prof. Emi Ito said "Lailah, if you can't explain the scientific observations in a simple sentence, it means you do not know enough.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
That's why even the simplest, most basic Japanese sentence cannot be translated into English!
— Tae Kim
When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.
— Wayne Rogers
I wonder what kind of sound it would make if I were to smash this glass against the side of his head.
— Colleen Hoover
I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.
— Steve Martin
The best sentence? The shortest.
— Anatole France
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
Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath.
— Stefan Bachmann
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
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
CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.
— Audrey Niffenegger
If a sentence were a picket fence, the serial commas would be posts at regular intervals.
— Anonymous
Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rode to glory on the back of the strong declarative sentence.
— William Zinsser
Jerrie Cobb reached down and pulled the heavy layers of arctic clothing over her navy blue linen dress.
— Martha Ackmann
The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.
— Rob Bell
From above, start with the privileged view.
— Maureen Howard
I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.
— Fran Lebowitz
The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true.
— Douglas Hofstadter
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
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
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 period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence
— Cathy Crimmins
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
I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel.
— Haruki Murakami
It helps to read the sentence aloud.
— Harry Kemelman
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
Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The only antidote to anger is to eliminate the internal sentence: "If only you were more like me."
— Wayne Dyer
It seems unlikely that so much literaturecould be made from twenty-six letters.
Doesn't it seem it could all be boiled
down to one sentence? — Brenda Shaughnessy
We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.
— David Mitchell
