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Quotation Quotes

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors Picture Quote #1

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it Picture Quote #1

Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation Picture Quote #1

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language Picture Quote #1

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living Picture Quote #1

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river Picture Quote #1

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem Picture Quote #1

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation Picture Quote #1

I’m a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact Picture Quote #1

To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here’s the full quotation and the story Picture Quote #1

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I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on THIS HOUSE, and on All that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof! President Franklin D. Roosevelt had this lettered in gold in the marble over the fireplace in the State Dining Room of the White House. The quotation above follows the capitalization used in the inscription Picture Quote #1

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing] Picture Quote #1

Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do the Constitution: as a Chinese menu designed to allow picking and choosing. That’s because when many Democrats take the Bible as a whole, they realize how much they despise it Picture Quote #1

The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation Picture Quote #1

My impression of the American people can be summarized by a quotation from Benjamin Franklin, Those things that hurt instruct! I realised that people in this part of the world meet their problems head on. They attempt to get out of them rather than suffer them Picture Quote #1

We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner Picture Quote #1

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All quotation dictionaries stand on the shoulders of their predecessors, which must be consulted as part of the effort to make sure that no famous quotations are missed Picture Quote #1

Sometimes you lose your way; you walk in the twilight of a forest; and suddenly you see an old but a beautiful house. And that old mossy house is a good quotation! It is old because it has wisdom; it is beautiful because it gives you a hope! Picture Quote #1

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract Picture Quote #1

When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for this to work. So I had a new problem, which makes writing interesting again Picture Quote #1

Fidelity to the subject’s thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation Picture Quote #1

I’ve always hated quotation marks: they’re ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another Picture Quote #1

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I don’t want to use quotation marks anymore, I’ve gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn’t use them, for instance, all the way back in the early eighties Picture Quote #1

The reader, however, is warned not to be too sure that the author of any quotation had in mind the subject to which it is applied here Picture Quote #1

But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye Picture Quote #1

It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation Picture Quote #1

If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation marks. To do so is to put on airs, as though you were inviting the reader to join you in a select society of those who know better Picture Quote #1

A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor Picture Quote #1

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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors (Quotation Quotes) Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it (Quotation Quotes) Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation (Quotation Quotes) Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language (Quotation Quotes) When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living (Quotation Quotes) A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion (Quotation Quotes) Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs (Quotation Quotes) Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river (Quotation Quotes) The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. (Quotation Quotes) Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation (Quotation Quotes) I’m a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact (Quotation Quotes) To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here’s the full quotation and the story. (Quotation Quotes) I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on THIS HOUSE, and on All that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof! President Franklin D. Roosevelt had this lettered in gold in the marble over the fireplace in the State Dining Room of the White House. The quotation above follows the capitalization used in the inscription. (Quotation Quotes) Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing]. (Quotation Quotes) Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do the Constitution: as a Chinese menu designed to allow picking and choosing. That’s because when many Democrats take the Bible as a whole, they realize how much they despise it. (Quotation Quotes) The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation. (Quotation Quotes) My impression of the American people can be summarized by a quotation from Benjamin Franklin, Those things that hurt instruct! I realised that people in this part of the world meet their problems head on. They attempt to get out of them rather than suffer them. (Quotation Quotes) We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner. (Quotation Quotes) All quotation dictionaries stand on the shoulders of their predecessors, which must be consulted as part of the effort to make sure that no famous quotations are missed (Quotation Quotes) Sometimes you lose your way; you walk in the twilight of a forest; and suddenly you see an old but a beautiful house. And that old mossy house is a good quotation! It is old because it has wisdom; it is beautiful because it gives you a hope! (Quotation Quotes) The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. (Quotation Quotes) When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for this to work. So I had a new problem, which makes writing interesting again (Quotation Quotes) Fidelity to the subject’s thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation (Quotation Quotes) I’ve always hated quotation marks: they’re ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another (Quotation Quotes) I don’t want to use quotation marks anymore, I’ve gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn’t use them, for instance, all the way back in the early eighties (Quotation Quotes) The reader, however, is warned not to be too sure that the author of any quotation had in mind the subject to which it is applied here (Quotation Quotes) But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye (Quotation Quotes) It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation (Quotation Quotes) If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation marks. To do so is to put on airs, as though you were inviting the reader to join you in a select society of those who know better (Quotation Quotes) A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor (Quotation Quotes)

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