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There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

Richard Flanagan
Mean, One Sentence, Sentences
Richard Flanagan (2014). “The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel”, p.141, Vintage

Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.

Philip Roth
Dark, Goes On, Sentences
Philip Roth, George John Searles (1992). “Conversations with Philip Roth”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right.

John McPhee
Writing, Sound, Sentences

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

Douglas Horton
Behavior, Pardon Me, Sentences

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

Wilson Mizner
Lying, Sentences, Knows

A clear sentence is no accident.

William Zinsser
Writing, Clear, Sentences
William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.9, Harper Collins

I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of them.

Stephen Amell
Names, Roles, Sentences

Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Lasts, Illusion, Sentences

Express your most powerful thought in the shortest sentence.

Roy Peter Clark
Powerful, Most Powerful, Sentences
"The Short Sentence as Gospel Truth". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. September 7, 2013.

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

Gretchen Rubin
Tact, Offense, Sentences
Gretchen Rubin (2015). “The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun”, p.13, HarperCollins

Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.

Anatole France
Kind, Carpentry, Sentences

A death sentence will be issued, a death sentence will be implemented. A life sentence will be issued, a life sentence will be implemented.

Mohammed Morsi
Life, Death Sentence, Sentences

I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.

Matthew Tobin Anderson
Regret, Ends, Sentences

Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true.

Margaret Culkin Banning
Sentences

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

Lewis Carroll
Firsts, Sentences, Verdict
Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 12 (1865)

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Jules Renard
Coins, Currency, Sentences

There is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written.

Ellen G. White
Chains, Sentences, Written

Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.

Eddie Cantor
Matrimony, Sentences
Quoted in Reader's Digest, Mar. 1934

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Winston Churchill
Firsts, First Time, Sentences

Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together.

Rodman Philbrick
Together, Links, Sentences

Life--a lifelong death sentence.

Julian Tuwim
Lifelong, Death Sentence, Sentences

My sentence is for open war.

John Milton
War, Sentences
'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 51

March 4th, the only day that is also a sentence

John Green
March, Sentences

The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.

Jacques Lacan
Lasts, Term, Sentences
Jacques Lacan, Alan Sheridan (1980). “Écrits: a selection”

The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it

Hans Bellmer
Body, Sentences, Invites
Hans Bellmer, Stephen S. Prokopoff, Krannert Art Museum (1991). “Hans Bellmer, photographs: 23 February to 31 March 1991”

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