Top 9 Gary Saul Morson Quotes
#1. The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them.
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#3. Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.
Gary Saul Morson
#4. We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.
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#5. Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that the thrill of making an anthology includes the opportunity to become such a coauthor.
Gary Saul Morson
#6. 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
#7. People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy.
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#8. Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations.
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#9. A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.
Gary Saul Morson
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