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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
F. Scott FitzgeraldRead
I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink, and circled it before putting a number of exclamation marks next to it in his mental margin.
Neil GaimanRead
Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.
Amos OzRead
Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of the euphoric exclamations. Every record I put on was like a baptism.
QuestloveRead
People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.
Tom WolfeRead
Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'.
Lewis ThomasRead
Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
Elmore LeonardRead
Five exclamation marks: the sure sign of an insane mind.
Terry PratchettRead
He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.
Samuel JohnsonRead
"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind."
Terry PratchettRead
In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed hands, the exclamation mark is the big attention-deficit brother who gets overexcited and breaks things and laughs too loudly.
Lynne TrussRead
And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.
Terry PratchettRead
She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
J. D. SalingerRead

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