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«Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.»
Author: Janet Malcolm
| Keywords:
characteristic, expressing, fidelity, journalistic, qua, quotation, sine, sine qua non
«Most public speakers talk so badly that a sudden quotation from a poet appears in their babble like a lady in a slum»
«In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.»
Author: Arthur Miller
(Playwright)
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blotted, blotted out, camera, Marks, quotation, recognized, screen
«Life itself is a quotation.»
«Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Ideas,
Individuality,
Passion
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else, lives, mimicry, opinions, Other People, passions, quotation, Someone else, their, thoughts
«QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.Intent on making his quotation truer, He sought the page infallible of Brewer, Then made a solemn vow that we would be Condemned eternally. Ah, me, ah, me! --Stumpo Gaker»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
brewer, erroneously, infallible, intent on, quotation, repeating, truer, vow
«Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.»
«Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.»
«I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.»
«Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Quotations
| Keywords:
contributes, enlargement, enlargements, quotation
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