Terry Pratchett
Author
"Five exclamation marks: the sure sign of an insane mind."
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Exclamation Points
23 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke."
J. D. Salinger
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations."
Ray Bradbury
Author
"...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points."
Tom Wolfe
Journalist, Novelist
"People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another."
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"I bet when all the punctuation marks have a party, they quietly look at exclamation point's wife and think, that poor woman."
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"Keep your exclamation points under control!"
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