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Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes. Jacques Barzun
Legally, Moosbrugger's case could be summed up in-a sentence. Hewas one of those borderline cases in law and forensic medicineknown even to the layman as a case of diminished responsibility. These unfortunates typically suffer not only substandard healthbut also have a substandard disease, Nature has a peculiar prefer-ence for producing such people in droves. Natura non fecit saltus, she makes no jumps but prefers gradual transitions; even on thegrand scale she keeps the world in a... Robert Musil
I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and disciplined, because you have to survive. It could be done so discreetly that the object of such care would not suspect, any more than she would suspect the sentence of death itself. Alice Munro
Ah, I am the judge of dreams, and you are the judge of love. Well, I find you guilty of dreaming good dreams, and sentence you to a lifetime of working and suffering for the sake of your dreams. I only hope that someday you won't declare me innocent of the crime of loving you. Orson Scott Card
Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth. Mark Twain
Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the story, what kind of a storyteller are you? Just an ordinary kind, just a mediocre kind – making it up as you go along, like a common liar. John Irving
Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Proofread carefully to see if you words out. And don't start a sentence with a conjugation. William Safire
No writing is a waste of time? no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good. Brenda Ueland
Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of ideas into thoughts. Henry Sweet
John Piper quote: "Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even..."
Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences. John Piper
Victor Hugo quote: "Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys,..."
Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence. Victor Hugo
Salman Rushdie quote: "The human race is a life sentence...it's a rough confinement,..."
The human race is a life sentence...it's a rough confinement, and sometimes we all need to break out of jail. Salman Rushdie
George R. R. Martin quote: "The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword."
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. George R. R. Martin
The spoken word and the written - there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that completely reverses the meaning. Agatha Christie
Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to. W. Somerset Maugham

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