Mary Norris quotes
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“The comma, if it's left out, sometimes can be a problem. There's a slogan on a T-shirt going around that "Let's Eat, Grandma," and "Let's Eat Grandma."”
-- Mary NorrisSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“Everybody is a writer. Everybody uses e-mail and has Facebook pages and tweets.”
-- Mary NorrisSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“On the printed page, it's best to have everything - you know, to still mind your P's and Q's, dot your I's and cross your T's, yes.”
-- Mary NorrisSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs.”
-- Mary NorrisSource : Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.86, W. W. Norton & Company
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“There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.”
-- Mary NorrisSource : Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.99, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Many survivors refuse to talk about what they went through but I've never been ashamed to have been in one of those places. The shame is not mine; the church should be ashamed. They say now they're sorry - what they mean is, sorry they were found out.”
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“Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?”
-- Mary NorrisSource : Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Back in the twentieth century, we thought that robots would have taken over by this time, and, in a way, they have. But robots as a race have proved disappointing. Instead of getting to boss around underlings made of steel and plastic with circuitry and blinking lights and tank treads, like Rosie the maid on The Jetsons, we humans have outfitted ourselves with robotic external organs. Our iPods dictate what we listen to next, gadgets in our cars tell us which way to go, and smartphones finish our sentences for us. We have become our own robots.”
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“Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.”
-- Mary NorrisSource : Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company
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“The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.”
-- Mary NorrisSource : "Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen". Book by Mary Norris, April 6, 2015.
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