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"There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus. "
— Joshilyn Jackson (Gods in Alabama)

tags: alabama, first, sentence

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"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality."
— Shirley Jackson (The Haunting of Hill House)

tags: first, sentence

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"What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?"
— Lynne Truss (Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation)

tags: british, english, grammar, humor, language, lynne, punctuation, sentence, structure, truss

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""Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.""
— Gabriel García Marquez

tags: hold, sentence

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"You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have."
— Gore Vidal

tags: novel, sentence, writers, writing

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"And now -- now it only remains for me to light a cigarette and go home. Dear God, only now am I remembering that people die. Does that include me?
Don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes."
— Clarice Lispector

tags: death, hour, last, sentence, star

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