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• Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.

  Aaron Koblin

  Technology, Interesting, Long

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• Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks is that most so-called theory is only a collection of examples from master practice.

  Bent Larsen

  Practice, Example, Quotation Marks

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• Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.

  Nigel Rees

  Law, Doubt, Firsts

  Nigel Rees (2002). “Mark my words: great quotations and the stories behind them”

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• Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must wade into.

  Willis Regier

  Wade, Swamps, Scripture

  Willis Goth Regier (2010). “Quotology”, p.17, U of Nebraska Press

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• Say what you want without saying it yourself: quote. Very useful, this, sometimes lovely, and versatile, too: big thoughts in small pieces, neatly wrapped and bundled in bulk, in different flavors for different tastes.

  Willis Regier

  Lovely, Flavor, Want

  Willis Goth Regier (2010). “Quotology”, p.50, U of Nebraska Press

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• Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about who’s bigger, who’s smarter, who’s best. Who-knows-who-said-what has a market, a history, and a hall of fame.

  Willis Regier

  Essence, Bragging Rights, Battle

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• With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Self, World, Firsts

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• Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It's quotable because it's been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority.

  Louis Menand

  Giving, Authority, Circulation

  "Notable Quotables" by Louis Menand, www.newyorker.com. February 19, 2007.

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• The most superficial fact regarding the 'Discourses,' the fact that the number of its chapters equals the number of books of Livy's 'History,' compelled us to start a chain of tentative reasoning which brings us suddenly face to face with the only New Testament quotation that ever appears in Machiavelli's two books and with an enormous blasphemy.

  Leo Strauss

  Book, Numbers, Two

  "Thoughts on Machiavelli". Book by Leo Strauss, 1958.

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• Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won't go away hungry, but it's not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.

  Christopher Buckley

  Reading, Men, Giving

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• Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs

  Jerome Stern

  Buttons, Legs, Napkins

  Jerome Stern (2011). “Making Shapely Fiction”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Long, Links, Lasts

  "Aphorisms". Book by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880-1893.

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• I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.

  George Eliot

  Art, Book, Writing

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• The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Germs

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1864). “Life & Writings of Joseph Mazzini”

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• [Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Long, Made

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• This field is so spacious that it were easy for a man to lose himself in it; and if I should spend all my pilgrimage in this walk, my time would sooner end than my way.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Way, Fields

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Practical works”, p.13

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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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• 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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• A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Waterfalls, Feels

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• Treatment of the apparently whimsical fluctuations of the stock quotations as truly non stationary processes requires a model of such complexity that its practical value is likely to be limited. An additional complication, not encompassed by most stock market models, arises from the manifestation of the market as a nonzero sum game.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Games, Whimsical, Arise

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, Revised Edition". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, Chapter Nine, Weighted Statistical Logic And Statistical Games, 1977.

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• Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.

  Winston Churchill

  Memories, Giving, Good Thoughts

  My Early Life ch. 9 (1930)

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• [D]ifferent people have different quotational gravity.

  Willis Regier

  People, Different, Gravity

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• I don't speak with proper grammar. I don't speak with dialogue attribution. I don't speak with quotation. I don't care about any of that stuff. It's about rhythm, and it's about what's in their [the character's] head, and what feels more natural. And it's about speed. I want things to move.

  James Frey

  Moving, Character, Care

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

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