#sentences

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

— Christopher Hitchens

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Sentences are not as such either true or false. ↗

— J. L. Austin

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I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: 'How are you?' and 'I want to work with Johnny Depp.' ↗

— Penelope Cruz

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I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

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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 don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey. ↗

— John Irving

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Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#down #even #five #four #i

In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

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