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And at the end of his letter one terrible sentence.'If I loved you I would have written differently. — Alice Munro
What would it be like to live one whole day as a Ruskin sentence, wandering like a creek with little comma bridges?
— Mary Oliver
Defeating one ant had taken all my energy. (I don't think I have ever written a sadder sentence than that.)
— Rick Riordan
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Like all great theologies, Bill [O'Reilly]'s can be boiled down to one sentence: There must be a god, because I don't know how things work.
— Stephen Colbert
After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
— Ernest Hemingway,
One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
The end of an unclouded day. Almost a happy one. Just one of the 3,653 days of his sentence, from bell to bell. The extra three were for leap years.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
— Franz Kafka
Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!
— Amity Gaige
Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence.
— Adrian Grenier
The one sentence I regret? "Let's watch some porn.
— Sarina Bowen
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
— Thomas A. Edison
There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.
— Richard Flanagan
Graham's wonderful sentence as, an investor needs only two things: cash and courage. Having only one of them is not enough.
— Seth Klarman
A good game has to have a fun core, which is a one-sentence description of why it's fun.
— Paul Reiche III
With one sentence and two steps, forever began. Till Page walked through my door for the very first time.
— Aly Martinez
If you could sum up your life in one sentence, then you didn't live much of a life.
— Carroll Bryant
The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.
— Malik Bendjelloul
Novelist Reynolds Price said there is one sentence all humankind craves to hear: The Maker of all things loves and wants me.
— Philip Yancey
I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.
— William Faulkner
There is no one way to render an idea. Let's explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences distinctive.
— Constance Hale
In one simple sentence: what Christians want for the nation should first be a witnessed reality in their local church.
— Scot McKnight
One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing.
— Bill Bryson
All the elements in an advertisement are primarily designed to do one thing and one thing only: get you to read the first sentence of the copy.
— Joseph Sugarman
I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'
— Wilson Mizner
No one wants to go out mid-sentence.
— Johnny Depp
I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.
— Carl Hiaasen
It's like the landscape is an interrupted sentence, one side dangling in the air, unfinished, and the other, a completely different subject.
— Veronica Roth
In one short sentence, it is captaincy that counts
— Bernard Montgomery
I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.
— Orson Scott Card
What is your one-sentence job description?
— Andy Stanley
Hope is nice. Fucking useless in this situation, but still nice. You have one sentence before you start bleeding. Make it good.
— Lauren Stewart
Freedom meant one thing to him - home.But they wouldn't let him go home. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Virginia Woolf had to ask herself How can one weigh and shape dialogue till each sentence tears the shingles in the bottom of the reader's soul?
— Virginia Woolf
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
— Albert Einstein
Never be boring, not for one scene, paragraph, sentence, or word.
— James V. Smith Jr.
An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence.
— Mason Cooley
If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?
— Neal Stephenson
No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together.
— Wilson Follett
The best sentence a man can say to a woman is "I want to meet your parents" or "You will be a good mother one day".
— Yuli Pritania
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
— Ernest Hemingway,
It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition.
— Haruki Murakami
Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.
— M.F.K. Fisher
One of the most dangerous myths surrounding eating disorders is that they are a life sentence.
— Lynn Crilly
A novel, basically, is writing one sentence - then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.
— Young-Ha Kim
Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence.
— Victor Hugo
What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.
— Virginia Woolf
You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does ... it's illegal.
— Lewis Black
Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time,
— Charles James
I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.
— Leonard Cohen
All I have learned in the twenty years that I have been a monk I can sum up in one sentence: All that arises passes away. This I know.
— Eckhart Tolle
If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
— Arthur Brisbane
Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
— Jasper Fforde
There is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written.
— Ellen G. White
It seems unlikely that so much literaturecould be made from twenty-six letters.
Doesn't it seem it could all be boiled
down to one sentence? — Brenda Shaughnessy
Like the one-sentence paragraph, the second-person point of view can also make us suspect that style is being used as a substitute for content.
— Francine Prose
People will summarize your life in one sentence - Pick it now.
— John C. Maxwell
If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance.
— Sterling W. Sill
Midnight was closing in, the one-legged woman was grievously burned, and the Mumbai police were coming for Abdul and his father.
— Katherine Boo
I wanted someone, somewhere, whom I might never meet, to read a sentence I wrote and think, I thought I was the only one who felt that way.
— Lauren DeStefano
I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.
— Asghar Farhadi
Sometimes reducing a problem to one short sentence can be enough to bring about insight on its own.
— David Rock
one sentence seemed to change a man, and the world seemed to change, one man at a time.
— Jung-Myung Lee
Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.
— Eben Alexander
It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.
— James Lipton
Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.
— Freeman Dyson
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it. — Salman Rushdie
There's U and I in universe! Uni = One, Verse = Spoken Sentence, so one spoken sentence created you and I!
— Reed Abbitt Moore
I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.
— William Gibson
A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.
— Joseph Campbell
