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• Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource.

  Stephanie S. Tolan

  Book, Creativity, Research

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• I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

  Anais Nin

  Unique, Ideas, Should

  "Fire : From "A Journal of Love" : the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937". Book by Anais Nin, 1995.

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• When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

  George Steiner

  Pages, Citing, Classic

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.159, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• You know what my favourite quotation is?.. It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese."

  Mary McCarthy

  Favourite, Chaucer, Knows

  "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt". Short story by ary McCarthy, first published in "Partisan Review", 1941.

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• They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies…the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. When you're stumped, go to your notes like a wizard to his spellbook. Mash those thoughts together. Extend them in every direction until they meet.

  Aaron Koblin

  Get Well, Technology, Elephants

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• My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.

  Nigel Rees

  Father, Taken, Mean

  "Sayings of the Century". Book by Nigel Rees, 1984.

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• Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.

  Jean Rostand

  People, Don't Trust, Copies

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• Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has become one of them. Dressed up as a scintillating double negation, it serves the pedestrian notion of art as illusion.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Class, Smell

  Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.163, Univ of California Press

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• The investor has the benefit of the stock market's daily and changing appraisal of his holdings, 'for whatever that appraisal may be worth', and, second, that the investor is able to increase or decrease his investment at the market's daily figure - 'if he chooses'. Thus the existence of a quoted market gives the investor certain options which he does not have if his security is unquoted. But it does not impose the current quotation on an investor who prefers to take his idea of value from some other source.

  Benjamin Graham

  Ideas, Giving, Doe

  "The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing". Book by Benjamin Graham, Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 41, 1949.

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• Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the least precious and profitable to a modern cultivator of systems and syllables, in pamphlets, magazines, and folios, is the right of Quotation.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Blessing, Literature, Magazines

  "Sketches from Life, Parts 1-2" by Laman Blanchard, 1846.

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• That the system of morals propounded in the New Testament contained no maxim which had not been previously enunciated, and that some of the most beautiful passages in the apostolic writings are quotations from Pagan authors, is well known to every scholar... To assert that Christianity communicated to man moral truths previously unknown, argues on the part of the asserted either gross ignorance or wilful fraud.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Beautiful, Ignorance, Writing

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1865). “History of Civilization in England: In Five Volumes”, p.166

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• [On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.

  Marianne Moore

  Writing, Amber, Use

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• I move for a creed for all our denominations made out of Scripture quotations, pure and simple. That would be impregnable against infidelity and Appolyonic assault. That would be beyond human criticism. Let us make it simpler and plainer for people to get into the Kingdom of God.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Moving, Simple, People

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• Evidently stockholders have forgotten more than to look at balance sheets. They have forgotten also that they are owners of a business and not merely owners of a quotation on the stock ticker. It is time, and high time, that the millions of American shareholders turned their eyes from the daily market reports long enough to give some attention to the enterprises themselves of which they are the proprietors, and which exist for their benefit and at their pleasure.

  Benjamin Graham

  Eye, Long, Giving

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• Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

  Guy Debord

  Ignorance, Belief, Periods

  Panegyric pt. 1 (1989)

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• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Love Yourself, Taken

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

  John Wyndham

  Said, Of Context

  John Wyndham (2008). “The Midwich Cuckoos”, p.85, Penguin UK

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• When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather

  Willa Cather

  People, Answers, Easy

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• Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

  Martin Gardner

  Quotation Marks, Want, Chips

  Martin Gardner (2006). “Aha! A Two Volume Collection: Aha! Gotcha Aha! Insight”, MAA

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• I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses

  Bill Walsh

  Caution

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• I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes I know.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Age, Mcr, Program

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• I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Book, Roles, Structure

  "True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

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• I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.

  Elizabeth I

  Memories, Reading, Pruning

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• General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives.

  Suetonius

  Night, Add, Evening

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• I do have personal relationships with a lot of "fans," in quotations. I answer all my mail, I get emails from fans, and I try to answer them all. That's important to me, but occasionally there's the thing where people basically ask me to write book reports for them, and I don't have that kind of time. I feel like there's a certain sexism involved, like because I'm a woman I'm supposed to constantly be like giving to everybody.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Book, Writing, People

  "Kathleen Hanna on buffalo chicken, Destiny's Child, and the sketchy things she did to McDonald's apple pies". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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