#sentence

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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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

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I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

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I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .' ↗

— Wilson Mizner

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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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