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Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man. ↗

— Joe Haldeman

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On December 7, 2059, Emilio Sandoz was released from the isolation ward of Salvator Mundi Hospital in the middle of the night and transported in a bread van to the Jesuit residence at Number 5 Borgo Santo Spirito, a few minutes' walk across St. Peter's Square from the Vatican. ↗

— Mary Doria Russell

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Celestina Giuliani learned the word "slander" at her cousin's baptism. ↗

— Mary Doria Russell

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My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. ↗

— Amy Tan

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The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is. ↗

— James Carlos Blake

#self-knowledge #tragedy #first-sentence

Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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The words of the world want to make sentences. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#sentences #want #words #world

Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served. ↗

— Christopher Darden

#conditions #going #happen #make #pay

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#content #define #genius #his #inspiration

Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two. ↗

— Mark Boal

#easiest thing #figure #four #just #later