Sunday, April 18, 2010

Commas Are Our Friends

A long complicated sentence should force itself upon you, make you know yourself knowing it and the comma, well at the most a comma is a poor period that it lets you stop and take a breath but if you want to take a breath you ought to know yourself that you want to take a breath.

GERTRUDE STEIN
From Poetry and Grammer, 1935
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