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• I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Goes On, Moveable Feast

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• It's hard to put into words the impact of the perfect lyric, melody or contagious beat that moves you in an unexpected way. Authors, composers and artists have tried - and here we've rounded up our favorite quotes that help to begin forming structure around such an unspoken universal force. Which are most meaningful to you? If you had to sum up the power of music and sound in one sentence, what would you say?"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."

  Leopold Stokowski

  Meaningful, Moving, Artist

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• A death sentence will be issued, a death sentence will be implemented. A life sentence will be issued, a life sentence will be implemented.

  Mohammed Morsi

  Life, Death Sentence

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• You can talk about a caption underneath a photograph being true or false, because there is a linguistic element. You can claim that a photograph is a picture of a horse or a cow, but it is the sentence that expresses the claim, which is true or false, not the photograph.

  Errol Morris

  Horse, True Or False, Elements

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Reading, Addiction, Remember

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• To be included in the group with women like Glenn Close and Kyra Sedgwick is a little bit astonishing to me. To even be mentioned in the same sentence as Glenn Close is just ridiculous.

  Julianna Margulies

  Groups, Littles, Ridiculous

  Source: deadline.com

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• People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolour left in the rain. To understand what anyone is saying to us we must separate these noises into words and the words into sentences so that we might in our turn issue a stream of mixed sounds in response.

  Bill Bryson

  Running, Rain, Issues

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• Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.

  Richard Rorty

  Vocabulary, Truth Is, Made

  Richard Rorty (1989). “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”, p.21, Cambridge University Press

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• The best sentence? The shortest.

  Anatole France

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• Suspect all of your favorite sentences.

  Kenneth Atchity

  Your Favorite, Suspects

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• Breast Cancer is not necessarily a death sentence, stay strong and centered and be involved in all aspects of your treatment.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Stay Strong, Cancer, Treatment

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• The whole secret of abundant living can be summed up on this sentence: 'Not your responsibility but your response to God's ability'.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Responsibility, Secret, Ability

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• There are some simple maxims which I think might be commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word if a short word will do. So, if you want to make a statement with a great many qualifications, put some of the qualifications in separate sentences. Third: do not let the beginning of your sentence lead the reader to an expectation which is contradicted by the end.

  Bertrand Russell

  Simple, Thinking, Long

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.37, Routledge

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• I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

  Laura Marling

  Country, Book, Night

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What I'm really involved in when I'm writing is something that no one ever mentions when they see any play. Writing is like trying to make gunpowder out of chemicals. You have these words and sentences and the strange meanings and associations that are attached to the words and sentences, and you're somehow cooking these things all up so that they suddenly explode and have a powerful effect. That's what absorbs me from day to day in writing a play.

  Wallace Shawn

  Powerful, Writing, Play

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• Never be in a hurry to terminate a marriage. Remember, you may need this man/woman to finish a sentence.

  Erma Bombeck

  Men, Remember You, Remembers You

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• Learning to exist in a world quite different from that which formed you is the condition, these days, of pursuing research you can on balance believe in and write sentences you can more or less live with.

  Clifford Geertz

  Believe, Writing, Balance

  Clifford GEERTZ (2009). “After the Fact”, p.133, Harvard University Press

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• Writing doesn't come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency, I think - the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.

  Adam Gopnik

  Writing, Thinking, Practice

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• What sentence will you choose to impose on yourself? Are you willing to stop suffering and making yourself miserable when your sentence has expired? This would at least be a responsible way to punish yourself because it would be time-limited.

  David D. Burns

  Suffering, Would Be, Way

  David D. Burns (1980). “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy”

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• When we're rational about rule-breaking we set a limit. You don't get 30 years in prison for a traffic ticket. But sometimes you sentence yourself to months or years of emotional pain over minor offenses.

  David D. Burns

  Pain, Emotional, Years

  Source: time.com

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• Because of the way our society is structures, using sentences such as "I don't it" can put people at a disadvantage. And this is, of course, why teachers have to give students access to Standard English, in order to protect them against this sort of prejudice.

  Kate Burridge

  Teacher, Order, People

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• A schoolchild should be taught grammar - for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an English sentence, the child can then go forth and speak and write any damn way he pleases.

  E. B. White

  Children, Writing, Way

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.120, Cornell University Press

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• The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Writing, Past, Ice

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.56, Bantam

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• A natural hierarchy is simply an order of increasing wholeness, such as: particles to atoms to cells to organisms, or letters to words to sentences to paragraphs. The whole of one level becomes part of the whole of the next. In other words, natural hierarchies are composed of holons.

  Ken Wilber

  Cells, Order, Levels

  Ken Wilber (2007). “A Brief History of Everything”, p.39, Shambhala Publications

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• Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Understanding, May, Matter

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “Lectures on preaching. 2. Author's ed”, p.251

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