"An anthology of quotations is a museum of…" — Gary Saul Morson
"An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances."
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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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A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.
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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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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 Anthology Quotes
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Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the…
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Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the…
— Lynn Abbey
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Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the…
— Peter Thiel
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I have got an anthology album out. The American version has got the same mixes but the European version, I…
— John Entwistle
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David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to…
— Terry Southern
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You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.
— Robyn
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Way back in 1989, I got lucky with my first published story when it was selected for the Journey Prize…
— David Bergen
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I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying…
— Judith Guest
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A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as…
— Robert Graves
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The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians.
— Kenneth Scott Latourette
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Streets teemed with hell's wretched souls. New dead with their gadgets and old dead from antiquity. Demons roamed the avenues…
— Larry Atchley Jr.
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Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation…
— J. G. Ballard
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