Mary Oliver
Poet
"Music: what so many sentences aspire to be."
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Johnny Depp
Actor, Producer
"No one wants to go out mid-sentence."
Li-Young Lee
Poet
"Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming."
Claude Simon
Novelist
"For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it."
King Vidor
Director
"Take it from me, marriage isn't a word - it's a sentence."
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"Every word you add dilutes the sentence."
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"No" is a complete sentence."
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"Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on."
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"Sentence first, verdict afterwards."
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"Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down."
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"Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins."
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"If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship."
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"All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death."
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"March 4th, the only day that is also a sentence"
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"We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve."
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"You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up."
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"The death sentence is a barbaric act."
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"A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end."
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""Nothing," I said. "I’m just…" I couldn’t finish the sentence, didn’t know how to. "I’m just very, very fond of you.""
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"There are very few innocent sentences in writing."
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"I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously."
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"Artistically, I find jokes really satisfying aesthetically, because there's something great about getting an idea down to a sentence or two."
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"Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance."
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"Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice."
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"It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word."
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