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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.
I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be.
All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.
The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.
I have prosecuted very serious criminals who are now serving very long jail sentences.
I'm sorry. I shouldn't be asking such things...' She let the sentence die its own death
Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.
It's a pity that Milosevic did not live through the trial and get his deserved sentence.
I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.
There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.
My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant.
If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.
Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.
A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.
Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
I am slow. A sentence often takes an hour to compose before I throw it out. What can you do?
What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.
To me, the most telling thing is we have a man [Donald Trump] who cannot complete a sentence.
When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing.
A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.
I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.
Dull words are what make many bright sentences shine. They do not call attention to themselves.
It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.
Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence.
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.
If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.
Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?
I am not a great fan of serious, heavy writing. I prefer simple, short sentences, light on prose.
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.
We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.
If you read scripts, you would see people rarely speak like that in real life, in complete sentences.
A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.
Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.
I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.
Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.
Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together.