You can do all of the wonderful things everyone has already suggested BUT if I read you question correctly you are concerned that your code is ugly... (strange for a Perl programmer.. but OK =) )

print "I want this on one line
I want this on another line
and finally put this here on yeat another line.\n"
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It's practically WYSIWYG. Just hit enter at the end of what you're doing.
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ellem@optonline.net
There's more than one way to do it, but only some of them actually work.