The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them.
Anatole France frankly advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." Yes, indeed, but do more. Copy many… - Gary Saul Morson
Anatole France frankly advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." Yes, indeed, but do more. Copy many…
- Gary Saul Morson
Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally intere… - Gary Saul Morson
Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally intere…
Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine tha… - Gary Saul Morson
Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine tha…
I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "g… - Gary Saul Morson
I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "g…
People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fa… - Gary Saul Morson
People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fa…
The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them. - Gary Saul Morson
Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only c… - Gary Saul Morson
Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only c…
A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom. - Gary Saul Morson
A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.
Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them. - Gary Saul Morson
Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.
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