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It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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Veronica Roth |
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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
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Virginia Woolf |
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"She said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head. "You're going to vacuum up that squirrel!" thought Flora. " --
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Kate DiCamillo |
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So the particular strengths of the colon are beginning to become clear. A colon is nearly always preceded by a complete sentence, and in its simplest usage it rather theatrically announces what is to come. Like a well-trained magician's assistant, it pauses slightly to give you time to get a bit worried, and then efficiently whisks away the cloth and reveals the trick complete.
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Lynne Truss |
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...what matters is not complexity or decoration but rather intelligibility, grace, and the fact that the sentence should strike us as the perfect vehicle for expressing what it aims to express...
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Francine Prose |