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• Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.

  Epictetus

  Giving, Justice, Tribunals

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.191, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragraph—each sentence, even—as I go along.

  William Styron

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

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• Fate's sentence written on the brow no hand can e'er efface.

  Bhartrhari

  Fate, Hands, Brows

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• A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!

  William Shakespeare

  Gloves, May, Sides

  William Shakespeare (1859). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.255

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• A good sentence is a key . It unlocks the mind of the reader.

  Eric Hoffer

  Keys, Mind, Reader

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• Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt, the curve of a facial line--even a significantly timed pause yielded informational juice.

  Isaac Asimov

  Curves, Long, Juice

  Isaac Asimov (2004). “Second Foundation”, p.19, Spectra

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• Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.

  Plutarch

  Argument, Force, Thousand

  Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.334

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• Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in the sentence with creation of a family and the purchase of a home.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Home, Writing, Doctors

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1998). “Sight-readings: American Fictions”, Random House Incorporated

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• We have a priori reasons for believing that in every sentence there is some one order of words more effective than any other; and that this order is the one which presents the elements of the proposition in the succession in which they may be most readily put together.

  Herbert Spencer

  Believe, Order, Together

  Herbert Spencer (1858). “Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative”, p.234

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• I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence. An awful lot of modern writing seems to me to be a depressed use of language. Once, I called it "vow-of-poverty prose." No, give me the king in his countinghouse. Give me Updike.

  Martin Amis

  Kings, Writing, Giving

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• Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But within them, you can say many different sentences and write many different books.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Book, Writing

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• A man convicted of murder is twenty times more likely than a woman convicted of murder to receive the death penalty. Since the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty, 120 men and only 1 woman have actually been executed. The woman, from North Carolina, said she preferred to be executed. In North Carolina, a man who commits second-degree murder receives a sentence on average of 12.6 years longer than a woman who commits second-degree murder.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Average, Years

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• I think I became a better writer after I started writing for the New Yorker. Well, I know I did. And part of it was having my New Yorker editor and part of it is that was when I started really going on tour and reading things in front of an audience 30 times and then going back in the room and rewriting it and reading it and rewriting it. So you really get the rhythm of the sentences down and you really get the flow down and you get rid of stuff that's not important.

  David Sedaris

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• No is a complete sentence and so often we forget that.
  When we don't want to do something we can simply smile and say no.
  We don't have to explain ourselves, we can just say 'No.'

  Susan Gregg

  Want, Forget, Just Say No

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• The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.

  John Rhys-Davies

  Stories, Scripts, Scene

  "John Rhys-davies on Indiana Jones and Almost Passing on Lord of the Rings". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. September 18, 2012.

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• Don't ever take advice from anyone who starts a sentence with, 'You may not like me for this, but it's for your own good - ' It never is.

  Lois Wyse

  Advice, May, Like Me

  Lois Wyse (1984). “The Six-Figure Woman and How to Be One”, Fawcett Books

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• The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.

  Claudia Rankine

  Past, Tomorrow, Blunt

  Claudia Rankine (2014). “Citizen: An American Lyric”, p.65, Macmillan

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• We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic. A secretive and proud mind is cold and obscure in style. An affectionate and imaginative nature pours out luxuriantly, and blossoms all over with ornament.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Style, Mind, Ornaments

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• The fact was I didn't want to look my age, but I didn't want to act the age I wanted to look either. I also wanted to grow old enough to understand that sentence.

  Erma Bombeck

  Age, Looks, Want

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Aunt Erma's Cope Book: How To Get From Monday To Friday . . . In 12 Days”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Thinking, Giving

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• We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

  Maya Angelou

  Hero, Men, Long

  Maya Angelou (1987). “All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes”, Vintage

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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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• Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It isn't my mother's voice, or the voice of any person I can identify, certainly not my own. It is human, but inward, and it is inwardly that I listen to it. It is to me the voice of the story or the poem itself.

  Eudora Welty

  Mother, Reading, Eye

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• I am slow. A sentence often takes an hour to compose before I throw it out. What can you do?

  Edith Pearlman

  Hours

  "Book news and notes, June 12". www.sfgate.com. June 12, 2011.

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• The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Fate, Kingdoms, Turns

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