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• We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic. A secretive and proud mind is cold and obscure in style. An affectionate and imaginative nature pours out luxuriantly, and blossoms all over with ornament.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Style, Mind, Ornaments

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• Broadly speaking, Keynesianism means that the government has a specific responsibility for the behavior of the economy, that it doesn't work on its own autonomous course, but the government, when there's a recession, compensates by employment, by expansion of purchasing power, and in boom times corrects by being a restraining force. But it controls the great flow of demand into the economy, what since Keynesian times has been the flow of aggregate demand. That was the basic idea of Keynes so far as one can put it in a couple of sentences.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Couple, Mean, Responsibility

  Interview with Brian Lamb, Booknotes C-SPAN, November 13, 1994.

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• We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, Love Is, Self

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Thinking, Giving

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• We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

  Maya Angelou

  Hero, Men, Long

  Maya Angelou (1987). “All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes”, Vintage

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• The fact was I didn't want to look my age, but I didn't want to act the age I wanted to look either. I also wanted to grow old enough to understand that sentence.

  Erma Bombeck

  Age, Looks, Want

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Aunt Erma's Cope Book: How To Get From Monday To Friday . . . In 12 Days”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• Don't ever take advice from anyone who starts a sentence with, 'You may not like me for this, but it's for your own good - ' It never is.

  Lois Wyse

  Advice, May, Like Me

  Lois Wyse (1984). “The Six-Figure Woman and How to Be One”, Fawcett Books

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• What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hard Work, Writing, Pages

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935”

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• To survive, each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must pluck with his own hands from the blaze.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Fire, Hands

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3635, Delphi Classics

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• If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.

  Samuel Johnson

  Kindness, Stupid, Apathy

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.223

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• The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.

  Emma Goldman

  Ideas, Personality, Tears

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.24, 谷月社

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• To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Punishment, Fulfillment, Intervals

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.695

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• In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dark, Atmosphere, Goes On

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1930). “Coleridge's Shakespearean criticism”

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• Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Style, Rhythm, Melody

  "Expression in speech and writing". Book by Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn, 1922.

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• Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It isn't my mother's voice, or the voice of any person I can identify, certainly not my own. It is human, but inward, and it is inwardly that I listen to it. It is to me the voice of the story or the poem itself.

  Eudora Welty

  Mother, Reading, Eye

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• I am slow. A sentence often takes an hour to compose before I throw it out. What can you do?

  Edith Pearlman

  Hours

  "Book news and notes, June 12". www.sfgate.com. June 12, 2011.

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• Barry recounts all this in prose of often startling beauty. Just as he describes people stopping in the street to look at Roseanne, so I often found myself stopping to look at the sentences he gave her, wanting to pause and copy them down.

  Margot Livesey

  People, Stopping, Looks

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• There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.

  Gertrude Stein

  Language, Natural, Found

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.551, Northwestern University Press

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• A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

  Gertrude Stein

  Emotional, Language, Paragraph

  Gertrude Stein, Joan Retallack (2008). “Gertrude Stein: Selections”, p.242, Univ of California Press

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• The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Fate, Kingdoms, Turns

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• I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.

  Jane Austen

  Rain, Illustration, Ideas

  Jane Austen (2016). “Jane Austen The Dover Reader”, p.516, Courier Dover Publications

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• sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words, are the foundations of all language. ... Your cat has no words, but it has considerable feeling for the architecture of the sentence in relation to the problem of expressing climax.

  Rebecca West

  Cat, Men, Feelings

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, a complete and total willingness to pour their hearts out to me, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone.

  Anna Quindlen

  Friendship, Women, Heart

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.

  Joseph Joubert

  Essence, Ideas, Giving

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.150

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• I never saw so intelligent a man have so much trouble in getting out a connected sentence. Ever since I have known him, he has desired to have a long talk with me, but he never gets started; and yet each time he meets me with renewed zest for the outpouring. It is like getting congealed liquid from a demijohn; you know the jug is large and full, but getting the contents out is the problem.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Intelligent, Men, Zest

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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