#sentences

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.

#contain #drawing #lines #machine #paragraph

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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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. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#i #life #much #my life #read

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#character #easily #form #individual #nature

Sentences are not as such either true or false. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#false #sentences #such #true

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#experience #long #long experience #proverbs #sentences

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

— Doug Coupland

#frankly #other #people #sentences #start

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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