“Personally, I like to defiantly split my infinitives.”
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[199708271551.IAA10211@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.”
In a letter to the editor of the Atlantic Monthly.
Context: By the way, would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss-waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will remain split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of barroom vernacular, this is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed and attentive. The method may not be perfect, but it is all I have.
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Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) Novelist, screenwriter
In a letter to the editor of the Atlantic Monthly. [Hiney, Tom, Frank MacShane, 2000, The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959, New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, p. 77, ISBN 0871137860]
““You split hairs.”
“Better to split hairs than the heads beneath them.””
Michael Flynn book Eifelheim
Source: Eifelheim (2006), Chapter XXV (p. 447)
Greg Bear (1951) American writer best known for science fiction
Short fiction, The White Horse Child (1979)
“I decided to pack up my marimba and split.”
Sophie B. Hawkins (1967) American musician
Quotations from SophieBHawkins.com
Context: Before I was signed, I just wanted to get into the system, even though I didn't know what that meant. After I got signed I found that I was confused by all the mixed messages from the label about what I'd have to do to keep their support. I fought and fought to maintain my identity and grow as an artist at the same time, but when I realized that to get their support on Timbre I'd have to start working with schlocky writers and totally sell out, I decided to pack up my marimba and split.
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
As quoted in "Mevlana Jalal al-Din Rumi" http://en.mfethullahgulen.com/content/view/1820/49/ by Fethullah Gülen in The Fountain #24 (July-September 2004) <br class="br">Variant translation: I want a heart which is split, chamber by chamber, by the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longings and desires to it.
“I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.”
Raymond Chandler book The Long Goodbye
Source: The Long Goodbye
“When the attentions change / the jungle
leaps in even the stones are split
they rive”
Charles Olson (1910–1970) American writer
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The Kingfishers (1950)
Kate Winslet (1975) English actress and singer
Isn’t She Deneuvely?: Vanity Fair, Dec 2008 http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/12/winslet200812