"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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Source : "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

Stanley Fish

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“All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.”

Source : "'Captain America' director: 'This movie is going to surprise some people'". Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. January 18, 2011.
“Today, people can say anything they want. Suddenly it gets in the rumor mill and then it evolves and then somehow it becomes fact and you say, What is this? You know, why don't you ask me?”
“When I moved to London in the 1990s, it had changed a great deal. Racism had become deeply uncool. But there has been a return of racism in the guise of "antiterrorism." People who look like myself are immediately suspect. I've become extremely self-conscious about going into crowded public places.”
“Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.”

Source : FaceBook post by Laurell K Hamilton from Jan 22, 2014
“I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.”
“Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. Just keep knocking on doors until the right one opens”
“Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.”
“Reality has always had too many heads.”

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