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#117: Ezra Pound
I went to Possum of London because I had observed that tyrants are most efficient in all that they set their hands to, but was unable to persuade Possum to any amelioration.
#Writers in a Single Sentence#Ezra Pound#Pound#T. S. Eliot#Eliot#TS Eliot#T.S. Eliot#Thomas Stearns Eliot#T S Eliot#The Cantos#Cantos
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#116: Herodotus
Ubique sunt dracones.
#Writers in a Single Sentence#Herodotus#history#Histories#The Histories#Greece#Greek#Ancient Greece#Classics#Greco-Persian War#Greco-Persian Wars
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#115: F. T. Marinetti
War, man...cool.
#Writers in a Single Sentence#F. T. Marinetti#Filippo Tommaso Marinetti#Futurism#futurismo#modernism#modernismo#Fascism#Fascist#fascismo#war#FT Marinetti#F T Marinetti#Marinetti
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#114: Junji Ito
A strange sight began appearing all over Japan.
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#113: Ayn Rand
All vices are virtues and vice versa.
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#112: Arthur C. Clarke
Since the dawn of time, man has looked to the stars and longed for self-annihilation.
#Writers in a Single Sentence#Arthur C. Clarke#Arthur Charles Clarke#Sir Arthur C. Clarke#Sir Arthur Charles Clarke#Sir Arthur C Clarke#Sir Arthur Clarke#Arthur Clarke#Arthur C Clarke#writing#writers#literature#books
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#111: Veronica Roth
If you build your society around poorly-thought-out and silly rules, your society will be silly and poorly-thought-out.
#Writers in a Single Sentence#Veronica Roth#Young Adult fiction#Young Adult literature#YA fiction#YA literature#YA#Young Adult#literature#fiction#writers#writing#books#dystopia#dystopian#dystopian fiction#dystopias#YA dystopia#YA dystopian fiction#novel#Divergent#novels#Allegiant#Insurgent#Divergent Series#The Divergent Series#The Divergent Series: Insurgent#The Divergent Series: Allegiant
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When you put lots and lots and lots of sentences together, you have a novel. When you put not so many sentences together, you have a short story. When you put several short stories together, you have a short story collection, like the one I’ve just published, here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Playing-Silly-Buggers-Other-Stories-ebook/dp/B0851X1KR1/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=playing+silly+buggers&qid=1583439322&sr=8-1
#Christian Robshaw#books#writing#short story#short stories#Playing Silly Buggers#Playing Silly Buggers and Other Stories#literature#writers
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#110: Mervyn Peake
An atmosphere of the most macabre melancholy had cast its pallid pall over Gormenghast.
#Writers in a Single Sentence#Mervyn Peake#Gormenghast#Titus Groan#Titus Alone#The Boy in Darkness#writers#writing#books#literature#fantasy#dark fantasy
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I also write my own sentences. You can find a collection of them in my début novel, Wankers, available for purchase at the following links: paperback: https://amzn.to/2AFVFet ebook: https://amzn.to/2H740NV Maybe you could read it and then submit me my own Writers in a Single Sentence entry.
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#109: The Reverend Wilbert Awdry
The amount of steam railways is directly proportional to the amount of civilisation in general.
#Writers in a Single Sentence#The Reverend Wilbert Awdry#Reverend Wilbert Awdry#Wilbert Awdry#The Rev. Wilbert Awdry#Rev. Wilbert Awdry#Railway series#Thomas the Tank Engine#Thomas#Thomas and Friends#Sodor#Isle of Sodor#writing#writers#literature#books#children's books#children's writing#children's literature#children's fiction
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#108: James Joyce
Your head it simply swurls.
#Writers in a Single Sentence#James Joyce#Joyce#Ulysses#Dubliners#A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man#Finnegans Wake#modernism#literature#books#reading#writing#Ireland#writers
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#107: Franz Kafka
Anyone named K. never really stood a chance.
#Writers in a Single Sentence#Franz Kafka#Kafka#writing#writers#literature#fiction#The Trial#The Castle#Amerika#Metamorphosis#The Metamorphosis#books#reading
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#106: Thorne Smith
Even the men of fantasy can’t avoid being cucked.
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Would you make a post about Thorne Smith?
I would make a post about Thorne Smith.
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#105: Robert A. Heinlein
Humanity can’t be trusted, save on the issue of where to stick their dicks.
#Writers in a Single Sentence#Robert A. Heinlein#Robert Heinlein#Heinlein#Robert Anson Heinlein#Starship Troopers#The Moon is a Harsh Mistress#Stranger in a Strange Land#Time Enough for Love#The Number of the Beast#sci-fi#sci fi#science fiction#SF#science-fiction#speculative fiction#writing#writers#books#literature
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#104: Seth Grahame-Smith
Who controls Bath, controls the Universe AND ZOMBIES!
#Writers in a Single Sentence#Seth Grahame-Smith#Jane Austen#Pride and Prejudice#Pride and Prejudice and Zombies#writing#writers#literature#books
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