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You only spoke a single line,
yet it felt like a life sentence.
One moment can change a day, one day can change a life and one life can change the world
The real joy of writing lies in the opportunity of being able to sacrifice a whole chapter for a single sentence, a complete sentence for a single word...
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Sometimes a single sentence can be enough to fill the imagination completely. And sometimes a book's title is enough.
With few words, one can speak the truth.
A single thought can revolutionize your life as it did mine. A single thought can make you rich or it can land you in prison for the rest of your life.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
What is your one-sentence job description?
I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.
I dream of summing everything up in the greatest sentence ever written.
I've had enough of stories and lies; enough of silent scribbling. Enough of gears and engines. Enough of daydreams and false futures. Enough of virgins and dynamos.
One word from you is all I want, she said. Just speak one word, and we'll begin.
Enough of wasting time.
Writing a long sentence is like watching a soccer player in slow motion as he kicks the ball across the field, as I leave a trail of dots and loops behind me.
No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence.
A period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence
The answer to most questions can be given in one or two words, and no one will challenge you to go deeper.
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work, and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
The most destructive or constructive actions begin with a single thought.
It does not take many words to tell the truth
The purpose of a sentence is to make you want to read the next sentence.
Brevity in writing is very powerful
Sometimes writing a single line is enough to save your own heart.
Life is but a day and expresses mainly a single note.
Start by writing the truest sentence you know
I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.
It seems unlikely that so much literature
could be made from twenty-six letters.
Doesn't it seem it could all be boiled
down to one sentence?
I believe that you can change a life with just one word.
In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences.
That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.
Things we say in one line generally can't be explained by us even in hundreds.
Sometimes writing a sentence can be harder than serving one.
One man has one great true thing in his life. One great good thing that is true!
I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
One clear moment, one of trance
One missed step, one perfect dance
One missed shot, one and only chance
Life is all...but one fleeting glance.
In every cell in every body in every living thing, strings of words make sentences, meanings locked together
From our first babblings to our last word,
we make but one statement, and that is our life.
It was from just a few sentences that a writer learned anything from another writer.
There is only one thing that makes
If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.
In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
One thought fills an immensity.
One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.
And there is a beauty that brevity alone provides.
Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once.
A sentence has a subject and a verb and expresses a complete thought. However,
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Omit needless words.
Brevity is pivotal to clarity.
One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.
It only takes one thought in one moment to alter the course of your life.
One person is enough to inspire the world. One quote can quench the souls of millions. One voice can start a revolution. One dream can tap into the dreams of many, naturally strengthened
as it grows to inspire an ever-increasing number of people.
There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.
Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less.
There's only one thing on my mind. There's only one goal. One aim. One focus.
With sentences, shorter is better than longer:
But sometimes things are said and they're not just words. They are everything that one person thinks of another in a sentence. Just one sentence.
After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.
Write about just one thing, I have said, and there is wisdom in this advice ... And yet, there is wisdom also in William Sloanes contrary observation: Almost all effective writing above the level of the soup can turns out to be about quite a lot of things fused or laced or linked together.
A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.
People will summarize your life in one sentence - Pick it now.
To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.
I'm no good at the one-liner thing. It's just not me.
It does not require many words to speak the truth.
Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.
No wise man will wish to bring more long words into the world. But
A lifetime's work, to try and say one thing that's true.
The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences are the carriers of plot. They're the conjurers of images, the conveyors of tone and meaning and voice. The best sentences surprise us.
A picture can say a thousand words, but a sentence can paint a thousand pictures ...
one love, one heart
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Just one step. Just one mile. Just one dollar. Just one kiss. Just one person. When we look at life through the lens of 'one,' everything becomes that much more attainable.
One doubt, one voice, one war, one truth, one dream ...
A clear sentence is no accident.
First sentences are doors to worlds.
Every word you add dilutes the sentence.
The meaning of a statement is the means of its enactment. Once
Every long sentence can be broken up into shorter ones, and if you don't know how - if you don't see within your long sentences groupings of simple, clear ideas - it will show.
There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.
It takes few words to tell the truth.
Write not what you wan to say but what you need to say
Love is one heavy words
For everyone says something repeatedly and is misunderstood, this is the only point where everybody understands everybody else, he said, I thought. One
One cannot say everything at once.-- R.d. Laing
Every man is eloquent once in his life.
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
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.
Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.
I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.
Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'
Sometimes, life is like that. One moment. One person. One conversation. And your life is forever enriched.
So many words, so little time.
I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't consist of declarative statements, but rather modifications, qualifications and feelings.
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.
I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.
I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.
The world is alive with words
Nicely put," I said. "And all in less than two minutes."
"Conciseness is underrated," she said easily.