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Unlike the current occupant of the White House, he has no difficulty in orally extemporising a series of grammatical English sentences, each containing a main verb.
Telegraph Column, Oct 21, 2008, endorsing Barack Obama -
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
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What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.
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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) -
Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.
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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
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When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.
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Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
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Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.
On Writing (2002) 130 -
You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.
A Summons to New Orleans -
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.
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