One Sentence Quotes - Page 5

• What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hard Work, Writing, Pages

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935”

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• 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

  Ideas, Personality, Tears

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.24, 谷月社

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• In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dark, Atmosphere, Goes On

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1930). “Coleridge's Shakespearean criticism”

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