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• He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Sleep, Army, Expression

  All Quiet on the Western Front ch. 12 (1929) (translation by A. W. Wheen) See Beers 1

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• Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.

  Daniel Handler

  Reading, Book, Finding Yourself

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• If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work

  Napoleon Hill

  Morning, Giving Up, Writing

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.92, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Oh, I'm sorry," Chubs said, 'apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Sorry, Middle, Said

  Alexandra Bracken (2016). “Never Fade”, p.399, Hachette UK

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• The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They can be tall or short or fat or thin. They can obey the rules or break them. But they need to contain a charge. A live current, which shocks and illuminates.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Book, Personality, Style

  "My Life’s Sentences" by Jhumpa Lahiri, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 17, 2012.

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• What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the rest is pure anecdote.

  Martin Heidegger

  Anecdotes, Answers, Born

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• For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.

  Philip K. Dick

  Persons, Series

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or even a whole series of books.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Sometimes, Enough

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• Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.

  Kristine Kathryn Rusch

  Boots, Want, Keyboards

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• The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. Each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found the strength to say it out loud to someone who deserved to hear it. What we hoped, and what we found, was that the second sentence of the truth is always easier than the first, and the third sentence is even easier than that. Suddenly you are speaking the truth in paragraphs, in pages. The fear, the nervousness, is still there, but it is joined by a new confidence. All along, you've used the first sentence as a lock. But now you find that it's the key.

  David Levithan

  Keys, Locks, Pages

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.34, Egmont UK

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• I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete sentence.

  Gavin de Becker

  People, Remember, Inspirational Kindness

  Gavin De Becker (2013). “Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)”, p.87, Dell

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• "Nothing," I said. "I’m just…" I couldn’t finish the sentence, didn’t know how to. "I’m just very, very fond of you."

  John Green

  Said, Know How, Knows

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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• It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

  Veronica Roth

  Blow, Phrases, Strange

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• Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence.

  Lauren Hutton

  Book, Ideas, Two

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• The New Testament never simply says, "Remember Jesus Christ." That is a half-finished sentence. It says, "Remember Jesus Christ is risen from the dead."

  Robert Runcie

  Jesus, Religion, Half

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• Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Work, Writing, Use

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• "I don't like it" or "I like it". This sentence must go away from your tongue. Likes and dislikes are only for people who have limited vision. You should learn to appreciate.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them over and over and over.

  George Halas

  Teamwork, Philosophy, Games

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• Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event, is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism, does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way, but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing.

  Jean Kerr

  Fun, Writing, Acceptance

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• It's quite literally true that we are star dust, in the highest exalted way one can use that phrase. ...I bask in the majesty of the cosmos. I use words, compose sentences that sound like the sentences I hear out of people that had revelation of Jesus, who go on their pilgrimages to Mecca.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Jesus, Stars, Dust

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• The worst way to read, he said, is with the thought that you do not have enough time. The only way to read is in the knowledge that there is an infinite amount of time stretching ahead, and that if one wishes to taste only afew sentences per day one is free to do so.

  Gabriel Josipovici

  Book, Wish, Way

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• There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.66, Penguin

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• Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Writing, Together, Using Words

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• All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Matter, Story Writers

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• The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Firsts, Finals

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.140, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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