Quotes with punctuation

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• Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

  Julie Burchill
  British journalist, writer
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• The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  American Author (1906 - 2001)
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• Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.

  Lorrie Moore
  American writer (1957 - )
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• The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

  Edgar Allan Poe
  American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• inappropriate
• anniversaries
• mispunctuates
• misunderstood
• converted
• sermonoid

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