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In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity. ↗

— Marianne Moore

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I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years. ↗

— Richard Powers

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That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

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I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence. ↗

— Alan Rickman

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I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith. ↗

— Garth Ennis

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

— Clifford Geertz

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