"Not everything that can be extracted appears in……" — 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 sorts of extracts become quotations."
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11 Quotes by Gary Saul Morson
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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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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 Anthologies Quotes
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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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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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The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
— Carl Clinton Van Doren
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Anatole France frankly advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy…
— Gary Saul Morson
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Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to…
— William Ernest Henley
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I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're…
— Neil Strauss
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However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
— Eugenio Montale
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Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that…
— Jeff VanderMeer
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As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.
— Elizabeth Janeway
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Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches,…
— James Wolcott
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Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel…
— Pat Conroy
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I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies.
— Karen Russell
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