"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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"That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?"
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"What is thy sentence then but speechless death."
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"The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken."
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"A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time."
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"I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life."
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"I get very involved in the internal logic of sentences."
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"He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time"
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"The last sentence of a book is, of course, where you have to stop."
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"The sentence im reading is terrific."
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"Words are useless, especially sentences."
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"I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay."
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"I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming to a head."
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"This is the end of our sentence"
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"The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest."
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"You can't not like "The Great Gatsby." It's got the best sentences in, like, ever."
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