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I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. ↗

— Janet Flanner

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I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word. ↗

— Laura Linney

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I want to invent a word that means “to stand tall, even when you feel small and frail.” That word, as I envision it, will be “Buqz” (pronounced Bucks). And then, with my newly created word, I can formulate a sentence that ties the record for the shortest sentence that uses all 26 letters of the alphabet. That sentence is, “Flyph Wax, a starving midget jock, buqz. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

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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

#faint #first #get #here #human

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

— Alexander Pope

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To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them. ↗

— Hugh Prather

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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

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