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  •    The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

    - Richard Brautigan
      Please Plant This Book,'Squash'.

  • The ZeroTolerance Approach to Punctuation.

    - Lynne Truss
      Subtitle of Eats, Shoots & Leaves.

  • I have horrible nightmares of Sir Almwroth Wright's limp sentences wandering through the arid desert of his mind looking for dropped punctuation marks.

    - Dame Rebecca formerly  Cecily Isabel Fairfield West
      'Lynch Law:TheTragedy of Ignorance', in The Clarion, 17 Oct. AlmwrothWright was oneof the most vocalopponents of women's suffrage.

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