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

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

3.
Proverbs are potted wisdom.
Charles Buxton

4.
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

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

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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

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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

11.
Always verify quotations!
Martin Routh

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Quotation confesses inferiority.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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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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Quotations calcify into clichés.
Willis Regier

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

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

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

21.
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

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

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We are ruled by quotations.
Susan Sontag

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

26.
Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!
James Joyce

27.
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

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Quotation lovers love rare words.
Willis Regier

30.
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

34.
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