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Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
Willard Van Orman Quine

Authors on Quotations Quotes: Susan Sontag Gary Saul Morson Isaac D'Israeli Willis Regier Willard Van Orman Quine James Joyce Dorothy Richardson Mehmet Murat Ildan Thomas Love Peacock William Safire John Grisham Charles Buxton Maria Edgeworth Michel de Montaigne Robert Benchley John Wyndham Blake Mycoskie James Boswell Ernie J Zelinski Loretta Young Jonathan Swift Tasha Alexander Bill Walsh Nigel Rees Daniel Kahneman Zora Neale Hurston Martin Routh Ralph Waldo Emerson Ambrose Bierce Giuseppe Mazzini Carolyn Heilbrun Mason Cooley Samuel Johnson
2.
One may quote till one compiles.
Isaac D'Israeli

3.
Proverbs are potted wisdom.
Charles Buxton

4.
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism
Susan Sontag

5.
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
Carolyn Heilbrun

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Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.
Dorothy Richardson

7.
Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'
William Safire

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I quote others in order to better express myself.
Michel de Montaigne

9.
Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.
John Wyndham

10.
You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary.
Daniel Kahneman

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A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.
Thomas Love Peacock

12.
I surround myself with inspirational quotations.
Blake Mycoskie

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I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses
Bill Walsh

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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce

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Always verify quotations!
Martin Routh

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Quotation confesses inferiority.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Quotations calcify into clichés.
Willis Regier

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[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.
Zora Neale Hurston

19.
The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.
Maria Edgeworth

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Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.
Mason Cooley

21.
Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!
James Joyce

22.
Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.
Samuel Johnson

23.
The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous!
Mehmet Murat Ildan

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One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?
John Grisham

25.
Quotation lovers love rare words.
Willis Regier

26.
I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"?
Gary Saul Morson

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It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it.
Ernie J Zelinski

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It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation.
Robert Benchley

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There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.
James Boswell

30.
A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.
Gary Saul Morson

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I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.
Loretta Young

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Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.
Jonathan Swift

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Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated.
Tasha Alexander

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I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: "However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you."
Nigel Rees

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We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.
Gary Saul Morson

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My skull is crammed with quotations.
Susan Sontag

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The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.
Giuseppe Mazzini

38.
Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
Isaac D'Israeli

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We are ruled by quotations.
Susan Sontag