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• I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word. I compare it to the work of a stonecutter - chipping away at the raw material until it's just right, or as right as you can get it.

  Harriet Doerr

  Writing, Phrases, Stones

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

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• You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.

  James A. Baldwin

  Writing, Goal, Want

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• Speak and live in simple sentences. Bring closure -- put a period to -- those experiences that you don't want to carry on forever and ever. Use commas in those places where you're still growing... and use exclamation points at the end of every lesson.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Simple, Exclamation Points, Forever

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• Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one's living from writing sentences. The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing. I couldn't ask for anything better. It's as near to godliness as I can get.

  John Banville

  Writing, Civilization, Long

  "John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200". Interview with Belinda McKeon, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.

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• Either CS (coordinate system) could be used with equal justification. The two sentences: the sun is at rest and the earth moves, or the sun moves and the earth is at rest, would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS

  Albert Einstein

  Moving, Mean, Two

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• In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style.

  Mitch Albom

  Powerful, Writing, Style

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• I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Character, Imagination, Fiction

  Tahereh Mafi (2014). “Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence: 'Do not harm others.'

  Dalai Lama

  Practice, Harm, One Sentence

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• It is no accident that you are reading this. I am making black marks on white paper. These marks are my thoughts, and although I do not know who you are reading this...the lines of our lives have intersected. For the length of these few sentences, we meet here.
  
  It is no accident that you are reading this. This moment has been waiting for you, I have been waiting for you. Remember me.

  Duane Michals

  Reading, White, Waiting

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• If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say that logic is the systematic study of the logical truths. Pressed further, I would say that a sentence is logically true if all sentences with its grammatical structure are true. Pressed further still, I would say to read this book.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Book, Definitions, Systematic

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• Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Domes, Helping

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.611, Wordsworth Editions

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• Don't get discouraged if you're hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming out wrong. You're allowed to get it wrong, as many times as you need to; you only need to get it right once.

  Tana French

  Needs, Discouraged, Coming Out

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• The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

  Philip Johnson

  Consistency, Mind, Mouths

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• For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.

  Claude Simon

  Bigs, Chores

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• Manny Pacquiao I'm calling you out let's fight May 5th and give the world what they want to see. My Jail Sentence was pushed back because the date was locked in. Step up Punk.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Fighting, Jail, Giving

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• Express your most powerful thought in the shortest sentence.

  Roy Peter Clark

  Powerful, Most Powerful, Powerful Thoughts

  "The Short Sentence as Gospel Truth". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. September 7, 2013.

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• Writing has been an important exercise to clarify what I believe, what I see, what I care about, what my deepest values are. The process of converting a jumble of thoughts into coherent sentences makes you ask tougher questions.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Writing, Exercise

  "A UNIQUE MOMENT': Obama to announce first gun steps with Biden this a.m. - POTUS is TIME Person of the Year -- Sen. Portman, Joey Scarborough bday" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. December 19, 2012.

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• This is the doctrine that we preach; if a man be saved, all the honor is to be given to Christ; but if a man be lost, all the blame is to be laid upon himself. You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences, salvation is all of the grace of God, damnation is all of the will of man.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Two, Grace

  Charles Spurgeon (2014). “Commentary on Isaiah”, p.251, Titus Books

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• For I begin with writing the first sentence, — and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

  Laurence Sterne

  Writing, Next, Firsts

  "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent: In Three Volumes".

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• Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs the work. The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Reading, Men

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.143, Shambhala Publications

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• Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article.

  Bob Frankston

  People, Trying, Stories

  "Immortal Code" by Martha Baer, www.wired.com. February 01, 2003.

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• The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Book, Firsts, Embrace

  "OPINION; My Life's Sentences" by Jhumpa Lahiri, archive.nytimes.com. March 18, 2012.

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• Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.

  King Vidor

  'The Crowd' (1928 film)

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• Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Order, Photographer

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• A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that violence will be punished, but not by emulating the violent. This seems eminently more consistent with American ideals than continuing to share the killing stage with some of the world's worst human rights violators.

  Mike Farrell

  Children, Rights, Safety

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