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It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said. — Elias Canetti
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat. — Bernard Malamud
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work. — Joseph Joubert
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its… — Susan Sontag
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism — Susan Sontag
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. — Susan Sontag
Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars… — Jean Genet
Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy… — Saul Alinsky
When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish. — Jack Smith
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. — Walter Benjamin
It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it. — Ernie J Zelinski
Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel. — Leslie Charteris
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation. — Janet Malcolm
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or… — Henry Watson Fowler
I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff'… — Peter James
In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse… — George Orwell
I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people. — Jerry Seinfeld
There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation. — James Boswell
Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe. — James Boswell
Always verify quotations! — Martin Routh
It is a rich storehouse for those who love quotations. It is as full of fine bon mots as a Christmas pudding is full of… — Fitz-Greene Halleck
...the curious hunter-up of rare quotations... the young and struggling scribbler... — William Francis Henry King
Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected quotations… — Tom Clancy
Oh, nice one, honey. Yes. Clever. That's becoming quite a familiar quotation in its own right, isn't it? Maybe I should just add it to… — John Bartlett
The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious… — Ethel Smyth

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