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title: "4 Anthology Quotes By Gary Saul Morson"
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> [Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-saul-morson/reframing-an-extract-as-a-quotation-constitutes-a-kind-of/)

[Gary Saul Morson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-saul-morson/)

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> [Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-saul-morson/not-everything-that-can-be-extracted-appears-in-anthologies-of/)

[Gary Saul Morson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-saul-morson/)

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> [An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-saul-morson/an-anthology-of-quotations-is-a-museum-of-utterances/)

[Gary Saul Morson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-saul-morson/)

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> [Anatole France frankly advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." Yes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-saul-morson/anatole-france-frankly-advised-when-a-thing-has-been-said-and-said/)

[Gary Saul Morson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-saul-morson/)

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## Other authors on Anthology

## More by Gary Saul Morson

> [“Like a delicatessen owner who sells rancid meat and then blames his business failure on the vulgarization of customer taste, humanities professors account for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-saul-morson/like-a-delicatessen-owner-who-sells-rancid-meat-and-then-blames-his/)

[Gary Saul Morson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-saul-morson/)

> [A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-saul-morson/a-single-gnomic-line-can-come-to-resonate-with-centuries-of/)

[Gary Saul Morson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-saul-morson/people-who-rarely-read-long-books-or-even-short-stories-still/)

[Gary Saul Morson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-saul-morson/reframing-an-extract-as-a-quotation-constitutes-a-kind-of/)

[Gary Saul Morson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-saul-morson/)

> [The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-saul-morson/the-attribution-of-a-speaker-is-in-fact-a-part-of-the-quotation-some/)

[Gary Saul Morson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-saul-morson/)

> [Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-saul-morson/unless-created-as-freestanding-works-quotations-resemble-found-art/)

[Gary Saul Morson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-saul-morson/)

> [We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-saul-morson/we-sometimes-think-of-quotations-as-extracts-from-larger-texts-but/)

[Gary Saul Morson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 certain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-saul-morson/not-everything-that-can-be-extracted-appears-in-anthologies-of/)

[Gary Saul Morson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-saul-morson/)

> [An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-saul-morson/an-anthology-of-quotations-is-a-museum-of-utterances/)

[Gary Saul Morson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-saul-morson/anatole-france-frankly-advised-when-a-thing-has-been-said-and-said/)

[Gary Saul Morson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-saul-morson/i-wonder-if-an-ever-occurs-before-haughty-except-in-a-quotation-or/)

[Gary Saul Morson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-saul-morson/)

> [Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-saul-morson/some-lines-are-born-quotations-some-are-made-quotations-and-some-have/)

[Gary Saul Morson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-saul-morson/)

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