#quotation

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#begun #habit #live #living #quotation

I improve on misquotation. ↗

— Cary Grant

#improve #misquotation

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

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With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish. ↗

— John McCarthy

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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

#beautifully #because #expressed #find #i

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

— Bill Walsh

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Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#also #beginning #blocks #examining #forgot

If you do goodness, do it in the name of goodness, not in the name of a religion! All goodnesses should be nameless! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#religion