84 Quotes About Sentences



  • Author Toni Morrison
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    You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.

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  • Author Wilson Mizner
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    I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

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  • Author Per Petterson
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    I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and things. I am urged by many things and no things in particular.

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