Quotes with sentence

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  • William Zinsser There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.
    William Zinsser
    American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher (1922 - 2005)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • George Orwell To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Cyril Connolly We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Doug Horton We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Joan Didion What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.
    Faceboek (2013)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Louise Erdrich When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Mark Twain Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) Ch. 22
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • James Thurber With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Larry Mcmurtry You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.
    Larry Mcmurtry
    American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter (1936 - )
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  • James Baldwin You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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