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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

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

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

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

Can we not say 'dumped' and 'Bellas' in the same sentence, please? — CM Punk

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

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

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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

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

What's the difference between Lindsay Lohan and Rick Perry? It only takes Lindsay four and a half hours to finish a sentence. — Jay Leno

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

When I sit down to write, I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another ... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map. — Melissa Bank

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

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. — Ayn Rand

Here, indeed, was a formidable sentence--one that was on intimate terms with a comma, and that held the period in healthy disregard. — Amor Towles

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

...if you want to know what my ultimate goal is in all this, I can tell you in one simple sentence. I want to take the stick out of opera's ass. — Cindy Irish

Until I dicover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep.
"My dear uncle-" I began.
"Nor you either," he added. — Jules Verne

'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

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

The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality. — Emma Goldman

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

To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea. — Steve Martin

Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on. — Philip Roth

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

Janine smiles. Strike the second sentence. Reader will know. Show, don't tell. — Gabrielle Zevin

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

Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them. — Neil Gaiman

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

The strength of your book is your conflict. For many writers that sentence should read, "The strength of your book is your villain." How — Debra Dixon

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

The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period. — Amy Dacyczyn

But - " I start to say. "It never helps to start a sentence from behind," Katherine says, trying to add some lightness to the conversation. — David Estes

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

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. — Karl Marx

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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