"Some lines are born quotations, some are made……" — Gary Saul Morson
"Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them."
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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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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 Born Quotes
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As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of…
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I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
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I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later,…
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Art is born of humiliation.
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What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
— Marcus Aurelius
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where…
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The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What…
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when…
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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
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