#sentence

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

— Jules Renard

#coins #currency #making #making up #many

We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk. ↗

— David Mitchell

#business

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#paid #paying #seen #sentences #simply

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence. ↗

— Wallace Shawn

#complete #form #how #interpreted #me

For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it. ↗

— Claude Simon

#begin #big #chore #complete #continue

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words. ↗

— Shepard Smith

#anyway #communicate #full #need #sentences

I am here wrongfully convicted and wrongfully sentenced. ↗

— Lorenzo Snow

#convicted #here #i #i am #sentenced

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. ↗

— Robert South

#consisting #each #fame #famous #greece

There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#also #bolshevism #death #end #execution

If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life. ↗

— John Irving

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