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All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Charles A. Beard

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

Book Ambition Others Say Ten Sentences Whole

I have always been of opinion that all the political workers should be indifferent and should never bother about the legal fight in the law courts and should boldly bear the heaviest possible sentences inflicted upon them. They may defend themselves but always from purely political considerations and never from a personal point of view. Bhagat Singh

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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

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Sentences are not as such either true or false. J. L. Austin

True False Either Sentences

Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy. Simon Sinek

Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory. P. J. O'Rourke

Memory Writing Digital Pretentious Mistakes Too Saving Paper Easy Tossed Computer Writer Computerized Lead Written Instead Makes Been His Surrounded Sitting Stored Sentences Neatly Kept

I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It's cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four herbs, representing four looters of plague victims' homes in 1665 who had their sentences reduced from burning at the stake to hanging for explaining the recipe that kept them from catching the plague. Paul O'Grady

Wonderful Thieves Recipe Cider Had Catching Like Make Reduced Did Hanging Just Representing Burning Victims Explaining Plague Stake Them Sentences Who Homes Mum Garlic Vinegar Four Herbs Kept

Some BuzzFeed articles are written by smart people who use complete sentences. Some of the disposable lists are witty and appear to have taken some effort to put together. Alex Pareene

Together People Smart Complete Some Taken Written Put Smart People Witty Articles Effort Lists Sentences Use Who Appear Disposable

Dull words are what make many bright sentences shine. They do not call attention to themselves. Alexandra Petri

Words Shine Attention Make Call Dull Sentences Themselves Many Bright

I've got to hear the rhythm of the sentences; I want the music of the prose. I want to see ordinary things transformed not by the circumstances in which I see them but by the language with which they're described. That's what I love when I read. Alice McDermott

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I guess I cringe when the discussion leads to, rather than books and sentences and characters and the stuff that writers are supposed to be concerned with, how to have an online presence and how many followers you have on Twitter. That stuff always makes me uncomfortable. Alice McDermott

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In my college years, I would retreat to our summer house for two weeks in June to read a novel a day. How exciting it was, after pouring my coffee and making myself comfortable on the porch, to open the next book on the roster, read the first sentences, and find myself on the platform of a train station. Amor Towles

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Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say, but also how they behave while they're saying it. That was great training for writing. Amy Bloom

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I get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I know how to compose - and people who aren't related to me read them. To be paid to write things that matter to me is extraordinary. Amy Bloom

Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had. Barry Hannah

A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI. Bob Graham

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Trying to get the sentences right and the structure of the narration right is about as big a job as I can handle. But I also know that if you handle that job properly, everything else just clicks into place. Bob Shacochis

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