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• We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.

  Anne Lamott

  Teeth, Tape, Pouring

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.22, Anchor

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• The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.

  Matthew Henry

  Book, Long, Way

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 280), 1895.

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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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• Like all great theologies, Bill [O'Reilly]'s can be boiled down to one sentence: There must be a god, because I don't know how things work.

  Stephen Colbert

  Religion, Bills, Bill O Reilly

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• What is or is not the jargon is determined by whether the word is written in an intonation which places it transcendently in opposition to its own meaning; by whether the individual words are loaded at the expense of the sentence, its propositional force, and the thought content.

  Theodor Adorno

  Jargon, Determined, Individual

  Theodor W. Adorno (2003). “Adorno”, p.5, Psychology Press

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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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• In Islam there is a line between let's say freedom and the line which is then transgressed into immorality and irresponsibility and I think as far as this writer is concerned, unfortunately, he has been irresponsible with his freedom of speech. Salman Rushdie or indeed any writer who abuses the prophet, or indeed any prophet, under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. It's got to be seen as a deterrent, so that other people should not commit the same mistake again.

  Cat Stevens

  Mistake, Islamic, Thinking

  "Yussuf Islam, Formerly Cat Stevens, Expresses Support For Rushdie Death Sentence". The Christian Science Monitor, 1989.

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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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• No sentence can end with because because, because is a conjunction

  C. N. Annadurai

  Ends, Conjunctions

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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 word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.

  John Rhys-Davies

  Careers, Actors, Fit

  Intervie with Ken P., www.ign.com. January 22, 2004.

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• One thing I'd do was put a great writer's book beside the typewriter and... type out a beautiful and moving paragraph... and see those sentences rising up... and... think, 'Someday maybe I can write like that....' It was like a dream of possibilities for my own self. And maybe I began to know that there was no other way for the sentence... to... arouse the same feeling. The someone writing whose words were rising from the typewriter became like a mentor for me.... You shouldn't do it more than a few times because you must get on with your own work.

  Gina Berriault

  Beautiful, Dream, Moving

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• All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Bible, Prayer, Sublime

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 419), 1895.

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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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• I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for the music of language, for what we call poetry, for the sound effects and the way that the sound can produce sensual feeling at odds with or consonant with the content of the work. Your work is also gorgeous writing. It's very unfortunate when you open a novel that everybody's loving and it's just, you know, an excruciatingly bad sentence.

  Tony Kushner

  Writing, Thinking, Odds

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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• The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.

  Emma Goldman

  Ideas, Personality, Tears

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.24, 谷月社

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• To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Punishment, Fulfillment, Intervals

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.695

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• Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Style, Rhythm, Melody

  "Expression in speech and writing". Book by Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn, 1922.

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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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• There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.

  Gertrude Stein

  Language, Natural, Found

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.551, Northwestern University Press

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• A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

  Gertrude Stein

  Emotional, Language, Paragraph

  Gertrude Stein, Joan Retallack (2008). “Gertrude Stein: Selections”, p.242, Univ of California Press

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• I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.

  Jane Austen

  Rain, Illustration, Ideas

  Jane Austen (2016). “Jane Austen The Dover Reader”, p.516, Courier Dover Publications

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• sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words, are the foundations of all language. ... Your cat has no words, but it has considerable feeling for the architecture of the sentence in relation to the problem of expressing climax.

  Rebecca West

  Cat, Men, Feelings

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.

  Fay Weldon

  Circles, Forever, Sound

  Fay Weldon (1984). “The Life and Loves of a She-Devil”, Pantheon

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