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Sentencing Quotes (page 18)

I cherished you inconstant; what would I have done, faithful? Now, even now, when your cruel mouth so calmly speaks my death sentence, I wonder, cold wretch, I wonder still, if I do not love you. Jean Racine
James Thurber quote: "I always begin at the left with the opening word of the..."
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method. James Thurber
How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put together a simple English sentence? (John Steinbeck, in a private letter written during the Eisenhower administration) John Steinbeck
Michael Ondaatje quote: "The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this..."
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Michael Ondaatje
People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit. Georgette Heyer
Every piece of writing... starts from what I call a grit... a sight or sound, a sentence or a happening that does not pass away... but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind. Rumer Godden
Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them. Neil Gaiman
J. D. Salinger quote: "her self-imposed sentence of unadulterated good-listenership..."
...her self-imposed sentence of unadulterated good-listenership had been fully served. J. D. Salinger
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. Ralph Waldo Emerson
And for some reason she held the sentence suspended without meaning in her mind’s ear, “…quite enough for everybody at present,” she repeated. After all the foreign languages she had been hearing, it sounded to her pure English. What a lovely language, she thought, saying over to herself again the common place words… Virginia Woolf
Roland Barthes quote: "There is nothing in discourse that is not to be found in a..."
There is nothing in discourse that is not to be found in a sentence. Roland Barthes
What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter; now it was bursting into more complex developments, becoming, one might say, a book - perhaps an encylopaedia - even a whole language... Salman Rushdie
It was the building from the drawing in my brain. And if you don’t think that’s a weird sentence, maybe you should reread it. James Patterson
... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about. Milan Kundera
Be Yourself. Let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish. John Jakes

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