#quota

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#ages #experience #perpetuated #quotations #wise

I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#belong #commas #detest #found #gave

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

— Loretta Young

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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. ↗

— George Eliot

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If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is NOT for you. (BUMPER STICKER) ↗

— Darynda Jones

#humor

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses. ↗

— Bill Walsh

#beginning #caution #ending #i #quotation

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#down #jelly #much #people #quotations

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#cause #ceased #class #earner #exception