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• Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.

  Freeman Dyson

  Inspirational, Life, Destiny

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• I love being married. I was single for a long time, and I just got so sick of finishing my own sentences.

  Brian Kiley

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• No sentence can be effective if it contains facts alone. It must also contain emotion, image, logic, and promise.

  Eugene Schwartz

  Promise, Facts, Emotion

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• Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

  Lionel Trilling

  Neurosis, Judgment, Ends

  "Partisan Review: 50th Anniversary Edition", ed. William Philips, 1985.

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• In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Degrees, Accuracy

  'The Bravery of the English Common Soldier' in 'The British Magazine' January 1760 (Yale ed., vol. 10, p. 281)

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• The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Narrative, Cold, Chemical Reactions

  "My Life's Sentences". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 17, 2012.

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• Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

  James Dickey

  Feelings, Mind, Peculiar

  James Dickey (1984). “Self-interviews”, p.139, LSU Press

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• Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Book, Feels, Rely

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• Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. On one level this truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language. I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. The language of my books has shaped me as a man. There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

  Don DeLillo

  Integrity, Book, Men

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• Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence—a noun, a verb, and 9/11

  Joe Biden

  Three, Verbs, Nouns

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• I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

  Leonard Cohen

  Hate, Wish, Ends

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.187, Emblem Editions

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• All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Character, Men, Thinking

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.114, London : H. Colburn

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• Acrid bitterness inevitably seeps into the lives of people who harbor grudges and suppress anger, and bitterness is always a poison.  It keeps your pain alive instead of letting you deal with it and get beyond it.  Bitterness sentences you to relive the hurt over and over.

  Lee Strobel

  Hurt, Pain, People

  Lee Strobel (2005). “God's Outrageous Claims: Discover What They Mean for You”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Secret, Components

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Make no a complete sentence.

  Amy Poehler

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.84, Pan Macmillan

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• AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.

  Yusuf Hamied

  Disease, Today, Illness

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• There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.

  Harper Lee

  Beautiful, Struggle, Language

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• High Concept means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins. Or, Arnold is pregnant.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Book, Mean, Ideas

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• Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.

  Charles James

  Cutting, Ideas, Design

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• I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.

  Larry Wall

  Writing, Use

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• I think hope is not simply looking around and saying that everything’s great – that’s just ridiculous. For hope to have substance, it has to acknowledge the pain. But hope is saying that’s not the final story. It’s not saying pain doesn’t exist, but it’s saying there’s not a period at the end of that sentence. It’s still being written.

  Tim Foreman

  Pain, Thinking, Finals

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• I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it.

  Eli Roth

  Hate, School, Vocabulary

  Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2007.

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• We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.

  Penelope Lively

  Latin, Museums, Lexicon

  Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown prose that would leave the reader puzzled and cowed. He should then here and there smuggle in a few sensible, straightforward sentences all could understand. The reader would feel that since he has grasped this part, he must have also grasped the rest. He would then congratulate himself and praise the author.

  Anthony de Jasay

  Writing, Intellectual, Pages

  "The Seen and the Unseen. Part I. On the Economics of Protecting Employment" by Anthony de Jasay, www.econlib.org. December 6, 2004.

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• A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows

  Mati Klarwein

  Might, Window, Thousand

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