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Many people live in an induced spiritual comma; they are inherently vicious, and are completely unaware of their malady.
you know those self-help books that give you permission to love yourself? This one gives you permission to love punctuation.
Someone has said that death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life.
I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.
5. Do not join independent clauses by a comma.
There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken.
Whatever it is that you know, or that you don't know, tell me about it. We can exchange tirades. The comma is my favorite piece of punctuation and I've got all night.
And I want to say anything is possible. Comma. You know.Comma-- Frank Bruno
He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.
I thought it was going to be different;
It turned out to be(,) just the same.
I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.
Punctuation is the pragmatics of written language.
Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences
even if you're right.
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.
Punctuation lets your writing breathe...
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
A text message has no soul, no matter how many commas you shift.
With the right hunch, you could read the inflection of an author's soul on a single comma, in one sentence, and from that one sentence seize the whole book, his life work.
I need an irony punctuation mark for the clueless.
I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.
What's the difference between a cat and a comma?
One has claws at the end of its paws, and one is a pause at the end of a clause.
Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge ...
Punctuation was, it is sad to say, invented a very long time ago. Even more frustrating, it has remained with us ever since.
If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic.
They lay together like a word and a comma, asleep within an unfinished sentence.
I'm no more than a comma in life. I who am a colon. Thou, thou art my exclamation.
In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma.
Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.
Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.
It is my destiny to know people who abuse punctuation.
To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.
Semicolon, you dolt!
She was unconscious in a comma."
"You mean a coma."
"Do I?
Wow," said Fishy. "I don't think I heard a single full stop in there. You know, when you start talking entirely in comma splices, you're probably ready for a time-out and a tranquilizer.
We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.
Death is just a comma to a Christian, not a period.
So the fire and its subsequent flood, wich destroyed everything left that was not flammable and added a particularly noisome flux to the survivors'problems, did not mark its end. Rather it was a fiery punctuation mark, a coal-like comma, or salamander semicolon, in a continuing story.
No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.
On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. It tells the reader how to hum the tune.
How hideous is the semicolon.
I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!
I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a product of contemporary taste, driven by momentary appetites rather than eternal verities.
You expect death to bring some new form of punctuation, but there it is: one small gasp. Period.
Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.
The American punctuation rule sticks in the craw of every computer scientist, logician, and linguist, because any ordering of typographical delimiters that fails to reflect the logical nesting of the content makes a shambles of their work.
And finally, to call to mind the enormous influence which "German philosophy"
I hope you understand its right to inverted commas-
All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.
But to paraphrase the ever-paraphraseable Freud, who said something to the effect that when you speak about the past you lie with every breath you take, I will say this: When you write about the past, you lie with each letter, with every grapheme, including the goddamn comma.
Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.
Happy Christmas, Clara. Xx.
Yes, I know. I know that text doesn't look like much. But ... actually. First note the comma. I feel proud of his comma, and of being his comma's recipient.
Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member.
He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.
Balthazar was the kind of guy who used totally correct spelling and punctuation even when he was texting, which was sort of bizarrely hot. She was in serious trouble if commas could get her going.
Anxiety takes away all the commas and full stops we need to make sense of ourselves.
I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.
Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.
This chapter is dedicated to those other delights of punctuation--exquisite little squiggles, those most delightful dots and dashes, and other tragically under-appreciated tiny tidbits!
Nah. I'm just yankin' your chain.
Great. They fucked with my punctuation?" "Pam says you're overly fond of semicolons.
Well, I am more partial to a semicolon myself.
I can't help but think that the way we punctuate now is the right way - that we are living in a punctuation renaissance.
No one knows what they are anymore," he says. "If you're not in the habit of reading nineteenth-century novels, you think that the author has killed a fruit fly directly above a comma - semicolons have become nothing but a distraction.
If I had my life over again[, ] I'd have thought more about words. And thought about them earlier.
A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fiancee; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and whilst doing so he will be more concerned with the placement of commas than the screams of the dying.
I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.
Joseph Robertson wrote in an essay on punctuation in 1785, "The art of punctuation is of infinite consequence in writing; as it contributes to the perspicuity, and consequently to the beauty, of every composition.
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.
i thought grief would insert itself in the middle and never leave.
i know better now.
stanzas are for quitters
punctuation is for the brave.
If love is a semicolon then grief is a comma:
it won't ever stand alone,
but it will give you one breath,
in.
If I wouldn't of spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher I'd know how to punctuate good thing I normally write poetry.
In my life, water has had the character of punctuation.
Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas
a whole grammar made of light, for words to hard to speak.
I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.
Punctuation is over rated a fly on the page of the book can change it all to hell.
Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.
Broadly, therefore, the three even now lurching across the deserted planks of the Brass Bridge were dead drunk assassins and the men behind them were bent on inserting the significant comma.
Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power!
Eats Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, by Lynne Truss.
The semicolon is a much neglected beast
Was that semi-colon some kind of flirty wink or just bad punctuation?
From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and detours of a writer's thought.
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
Spelling and punctuation are completely irrelevant; unless you are hoping to be understood.
You darling is my semicolon.
Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the different pauses which the sense, and an accurate pronunciation require.
Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.
You love that, don't you?" I growled. "Being hammered by my cock ... you must think you're in ... fucking ... heaven."
Punctuation by cock thrust - the very best kind.
I mean we cant even rock them shoes if it dont got a comma on the price tag ya know. I mean.. I mean but then again who looks at the price tag ya know?
A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.
The stops point out, with truth, the time of pause
A sentence doth require at ev'ry clause.
t ev'ry comma, stop while one you count;
At semicolon, two is the amount;
A colon doth require the time of three;
The period four, as learned men agree.
I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.
There is no pleasure so acute as that of a well-placed semi-colon. (the author is actually quoting a friend here)
Well, for one thing," she said, "her knowledge of punctuation begins and ends with her own beauty mark.
We argued for weeks about the existence and then the location of a particular semicolon,
Remember that death is the punctuation at the end of the sentence. It's up to us to decide what kind of punctuation it will be - a period or an exclamation point.
My karma's the comma that puts you inside of a coma,
Hyphen, dot, dot, semi-colon, leave you semi-swollen.
Question mark, you pregnant?
Oh you're not? I love you, period.