#sentences

I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful. ↗

— Rae Hachton

#death-and-dying #first-lines #gothic-fantasy #gothic-romance #love

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#drawn #experience #i #i believe #many

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#clog #delivers #every #fatal #help

I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#adam #believing #did #doing #end

The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason. ↗

— Ted Danson

#comfortable #i #little #me #more

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm. ↗

— Joan Didion

#book #constantly #day #every #every day

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#face #i #like #look #off

You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever. ↗

— John Green

#ever #got #great #like #sentences

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#accurate #always #beautiful #being #between

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#i #life #much #my life #read