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  • All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
  • The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ''eternity''; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

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  • Gaston Bachelard The words of the world want to make sentences.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bob Graham A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bruce Jackson America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Jean Rostand Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Samuel Johnson He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Philip Roth I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Samuel Johnson In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Anatole Broyard Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Virginia Woolf Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the lam. These homecomings typically involved prearranged surrenders to the FBI, in the hopes of earning lenient sentences.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Barry Hannah Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ''eternity''; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • B. F. Skinner The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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