"You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up."

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Toni Morrison

#Connotation Quotes #Rely Quotes #Sentences Quotes

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.”
“I think I'm going to cry, this is crazy." "No, you're just processing. Go ahead and cry." "I thought men got nervous around crying females." "I'm a Marine, remember? We're trained to handle anything.”

Source : Jayne Ann Krentz (2011). “All Night Long”, p.193, Hachette UK
“When you create art, the world has to wait.”
“Nurse Rozetta, I won't let her catch me peering down her sweeter.”
“Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same time it is like being cuckolded, or plotted against. It is part of the universe of events which will never wholly reveal itself to you: a conspiracy the barest outline of which, once visible, will gall you forever.”
“Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.”
“It's better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out.”
“Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.”

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