"A single gnomic line can come to resonate……" — Gary Saul Morson
"A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom."
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11 Quotes by 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…
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Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.
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Anatole France frankly advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy…
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Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as…
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I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like…
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The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a…
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Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes…
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An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.
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People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres.…
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We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.
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More Centuries Quotes
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
— Karen Armstrong
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
— Chinua Achebe
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
— Emilie Autumn
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the…
— Lord Acton
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As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey;…
— Cleveland Abbe
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty…
— Charles Baudelaire
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We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.
— John Berger
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For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the…
— Annie Besant
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Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over…
— Andrea Bocelli
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the…
— James Buchan
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Knowing that the 'Sex and the City' chicks now rack up almost two centuries between them, why do some of…
— Julie Burchill
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