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It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.


Paul Goodman


#anything #even #in my opinion #modesty #naturally

That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.


Guillermo Cabrera Infante


#characters #define #end #first #i

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


#been #getting #glorious #i #interested

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.


Christopher Alexander


#character #easily #form #individual #nature

Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.


Eben Alexander


#brain #dependent #eternal #evidence #hard

Sentences are not as such either true or false.


J. L. Austin


#false #sentences #such #true

I've got problems and if you sentence me to additional time, I'm going to compound them.


Gary Gilmore


#compound #going #got #i #me

It’s not: I jumped in, and it was cold. No. It was cold, and I jumped in. Always arrange a sentence so you appear to be fearless, when in fact you are far less than fearless—you are clueless. 



Jarod Kintz


#appearances #clueless #fear #fearless #funny

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.


Dwight D. Eisenhower


#almost #also #comprehension #develop #find

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.


Neil Gaiman


#because #book #create #different #effects