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I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of th

I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out. – Oscar Wilde, variously worded paraphrase, see quoteinvestigator.com/2015/10/25/c

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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. – E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

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Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and its relationship to practically everything else in order to prove that language is so inordinately complicated that it is impossible in principle for people to talk. – Ronald W. Langacker (b.1942), Language and Its Structure, 1973

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There is no element in which language resembles music more than in the punctuation marks…. Exclamation points are like silent cymbal clashes, question marks like musical upbeats, colons dominant seventh chords… – Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969), “Punctuation Marks,” Notes to Literature, V

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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. – Carl Sandburg

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