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• The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Political

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• I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

  Wilson Mizner

  Lying, Knows, Brazen

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• When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, 'Mandy Moore... she'll probably go back to where she came from in a year.'

  Mandy Moore

  Thinking, Years, People

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• The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Magic, Normal, Internet

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• The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Ambition, Doe

  "Twilight of the Idols".

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• A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

  Barack Obama

  Music, Powerful, Pieces

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• Who on earth is going to use 'utilize' in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type 'z,' when you can say the exact same thing in three characters? I can't think of a sentence in which 'use' can't replace 'utilize.'

  Susan Orlean

  Character, Thinking, Three

  "Wordy Rappinghood" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 8, 2010.

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• A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.

  James Patterson

  Falling In Love, Writing, People

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• Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So every sentence has to do two things at once: convey a message and continue to negotiate that relationship.

  Steven Pinker

  Two, Degrees, Might

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• The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

  Alexander Pope

  Law, Judging, May

  The Rape of the Lock canto 3, l. 21 (1714)

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• Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mind, Female, Three

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• To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

  Hugh Prather

  Frustration, Mindfulness, Would Be

  Hugh Prather (1970). “Notes to myself: my struggle to become a person”

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• Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

  Jules Renard

  Coins, Currency, Making Up

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• I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

  Alan Rickman

  Mean, Energy, Different

  "Alan Rickman Interview NOBEL SON" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 5, 2008.

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• A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Novel, Ready

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• John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'

  Tom Robbins

  Lasts, Factories, Said

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• Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.

  Meg Rosoff

  Jobs, Writing, Heart

  "How to write fiction: Meg Rosoff on finding your voice". www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2011.

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• If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

  Salman Rushdie

  Religion, Sound, One Sentence

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• If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Islam, Fiction

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• When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Writing, Character

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• So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some little seed crystal of interest, a sentence or an image or an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. And then by this process of revision, mysteriously it starts to accrete meanings as you go.

  George Saunders

  Ideas, Trying, Stories

  Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. January 18, 2013.

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• To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.

  Will Self

  Fall, Writing, Pages

  "Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure" by Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Anne Enright, Howard Jacobson, Will Self and Lionel Shriver, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2013.

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• For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

  Wallace Shawn

  Writing, Thinking, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy.

  Simon Sinek

  Philosophy, Personality, Leader

  "Don't Be So Tough: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• 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

  Life, Writing, Men

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