#sentence

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: 'How are you?' and 'I want to work with Johnny Depp.' ↗

— Penelope Cruz

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I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. ↗

— Janet Flanner

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I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever. ↗

— John Green

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Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. ↗

— William Strunk, Jr.

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