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“We marvel at them; we read them aloud to our friends and spouses, even, occasionally, to passersby; we analyze them; we lament our inability to match them.”

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Źródło: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 1, Why Sentences?, p. 4

“The structure of a fully articulated profession is such that those who enter its precincts will find that the basic decisions, about where to look, what to do, and how to do it, have already been made.”

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as cited in Historics: Why History Dominates Contemporary Society, p. 135

“The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them,..”

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Źródło: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 10, Sentences That Are About Themselves (Aren't They All?), p. 137

“The word "essay" means to try out, test, probe. In the essay style, successive clauses and sentences are not produced by an overarching logic, but by association; the impression that prose gives is that it can go anywhere in a manner wholly unpredictable.”

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Źródło: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 6, The Additive Style, p. 62

“Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how to make sentences forever and you will know too when what you are writing doesn't make the grade because it has degenerated into a mere pile of discrete items.”

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Źródło: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 3, It's Not The Thought That Counts, p. 33

“Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.”

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Źródło: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 4, What Is A Good Sentence?, p. 42

“People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.”

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Źródło: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 4, What Is A Good Sentence?, p. 37

“They are their own monuments, as is this quietly thrilling sentence.”

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Źródło: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 9, Last Sentences, p. 130

“Literary interpretation, like virtue, is its own reward. I do it because I like the way I feel when I'm doing it.”

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Interview by Mark Bauerlein, " A Solitary Thinker https://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Solitary-Thinker/127464," The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 15, 2001

“No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.”

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Źródło: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 2, Why You Don't Find The Answer In Strunk And White, p. 17

“What we know of the world comes to us through words, or, to look at it from the other direction, when we write a sentence, we create a world, which is not the world, but the world as is appears within a dimension of assessment.”

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Źródło: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 4, What Is A Good Sentence?, p. 39

“Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.”

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Źródło: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 4, What Is A Good Sentence?, p. 38

“Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?”

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Epilogue, p. 160
How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011)

“Just as you can practice three - word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshakable conviction.”

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Źródło: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 5, The Subordinate Style, p. 48

“The category of first sentence makes sense only if it is looking forward to the development of thematic concerns it perhaps only dimly foreshadows.”

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Źródło: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 8, First Sentences, p. 99

“Before the words slide into their slots, they are just discrete items, pointing everywhere and nowhere.”

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Źródło: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 1, Why Sentences?, p. 2

“It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.”

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Źródło: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 3, It's Not The Thought That Counts, p. 26

“Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead. The shaping power of language cannot be avoided. We cannot choose to distance ourselves from it. We can only choose to employ it in one way rather than another.”

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Źródło: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 4, What Is A Good Sentence?, p. 42

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