Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers"
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Punctuation Marks
16 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Elie Wiesel
Writer, Holocaust Survivor
"The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road."
Haruki Murakami
Writer
"Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end."
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