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Obviously, in journalism, you’re confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it’s in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one Picture Quote #1

I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of Picture Quote #1

A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That’s what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself Picture Quote #1

The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence Picture Quote #1

I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period Picture Quote #1

He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it Picture Quote #1

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What’s so hard about that first sentence is that you’re stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you’ve laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone Picture Quote #1

If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication Picture Quote #1

If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don’t wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence Picture Quote #1

It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down Picture Quote #1

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, ‘Have you read - Picture Quote #1

Bitch is a universal word, you can say at the end of any sentence. Bitch Picture Quote #1

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Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rode to glory on the back of the strong declarative sentence Picture Quote #1

The first American word that I learned was cheeseburger. And the first sentence I learned was, I’m sorry but we don’t serve breakfast after 12 o’clock Picture Quote #1

I’ve been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night Picture Quote #1

A beautiful sentence and a beautiful sunset derive from the same source Picture Quote #1

I don’t deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with Charles Chaplin Picture Quote #1

If you are stymied as a writer, if it’s just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don’t feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence Picture Quote #1

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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve Picture Quote #1

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