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• There's a death sentence for your Robin of Locksley.

  Claude Rains

  Robins, Death Sentence

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• Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to do.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Writing, Want, Steps

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• The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd.

  Zoltan Istvan

  Dream, Comfort, Spirit

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• They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Speech, Firsts, Hardest

  "The Poet and the World". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1996.

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• There is a slovenly disrespect for truth and reality that has infected and cross-infected the arts; the values of entertainment are relentlessly in the ascendant, to the extent that it becomes virtually impossible to write a naturalistic fictional sentence without feeling that the fabric of that sentence is already compromised.

  Rachel Cusk

  Art, Writing, Reality

  "Go Forth (Vol. 34)". Interview with Alice Whitwham, logger.believermag.com. June 17, 2015.

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• There's no law against a sentence existing in two places at once, unlike humans, who are no longer allowed to bilocate because it confuses the cops too much.

  Patricia Lockwood

  Law, Two, Too Much

  "What Would Twitter Do?" with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. July 23, 2014.

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• To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea.

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Meghan Daum, www.believermag.com. May 2005.

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• I think writing letters is a lost art, but nowadays it's something that means even more, because it's so easy to communicate in so many different ways. But I find a love letter can even be a little post-it note stuck in your pocket, with a sentence or a few words.

  Hilary Swank

  Art, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think it's the sentence-to-sentence pleasures, the little surprises of a surprising style of an acute style, and also the way things happen one after the other, that makes a book interesting to read page to page

  John Updike

  Book, Thinking, Interesting

  John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, p.210, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I very seldom, during my whole stay in the country, heard a sentence elegantly turned, and correctly pronounced from the lips of an American.

  Frances Trollope

  Country, Lips, Heard

  Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.36, Oxford University Press

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• I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is overreaction to life. I love these early drawings; they show my innocent beginnings in a small town. Life is a sentence -- you live it out. Maybe these portraits jump out at you too much. People like things that conform.

  Alice Neel

  Art, Drawing, People

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• The Declaration of Independence is the all-time masterpiece of ideological simplification. There in a single sentence of self-evident truth, the founding Fathers put into clear, easily understandable focus, the broad basis of man's relationship to God, to government, and to his fellow man.

  Clarence Manion

  Father, Men, Self

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• Life--a lifelong death sentence.

  Julian Tuwim

  Lifelong, Death Sentence

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• Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Lasts, Illusion

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• If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Majority, Groups

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• Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences - nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon.

  Eric Hoffer

  Drama, Artist, Destiny

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• It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.

  Alexander Smith

  Memorable, Accounts, Consequence

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.43

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• The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

  Mary Karr

  Book, Healing, Body

  Mary Karr (2001). “Cherry”, p.173, Penguin

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• Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Punishment, Crime, Unforgivable

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• People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents have behaviors. We understand agents. We form global impression of their personalities. We are really not very good at remembering sentences where the subject of the sentence is an abstract notion.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Thinking, People, Personality

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• When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what youre doing is not any kind of public show, until youre ready for it.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, Ideas, People

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• The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all species are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Animal, Years

  "River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1995.

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• The thing is to sift out
  the important sounds, little syllables and vowels that bring
  hints of their lost words, and not to mistake the fossil for
  the life, or the kiss for the love, not to mistake the fragment
  for the sentence.

  Richard Jackson

  Mistake, Kissing, Important

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• Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.

  Demi Lovato

  Inspire, Stories, Share

  Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.59, Feiwel & Friends

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• That it is a solecism to begin a sentence with 'and' is a faintly lingering superstition. The OED gives examples ranging from the 10th to the 19th c.; the Bible is full of them.

  Ernest Gowers

  Giving, Example, Superstitions

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