Top 17 Quotes About Marginalia

#1. Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.

Willard Van Orman Quine

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#2. marginalia we were discussing today,

Umberto Eco

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#3. Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the anonymous roller that pressed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap.

Vladimir Nabokov

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#4. I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.
Alison Bechdel

Leah Price

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#5. In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.

Edgar Allan Poe

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#6. Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens
of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.

H.L. Mencken

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#7. When the Chinese Wall was built, where'd the masons go for lunch? When Caesar conquered Gaul, was there not even a cook in the army? When the Armada sank, King Philip wept. Were there no other tears?

Bertolt Brecht

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#8. We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.

William Glasser

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#9. Remember, Weed: The good of one tree is not important. The good of the forest is what matters.

Maryrose Wood

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#10. I like to say that arms are not for killing. They are for hugging.

Betty Williams

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#11. All human movement is expressive.

Alexandra Pierce

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#12. Volgar birdmen, hear my cry, Jeru's burning, you will die. Close your wings and bow your heads, Every living birdman, dead.

Amy Harmon

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#13. I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.

Tara Bray Smith

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#14. I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation.

Tara Bray Smith

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#15. Money is the best lotion in the world.

Chris Rock

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#16. I don't have bionic arms, and I have absolutely no stamina. Once I rubbed out the penciled-in marginalia of a hundred pages of a book that I wanted to photocopy (long story) and afterwards it felt like I'd been wanking off a giant for a hundred years.

Scarlett Thomas

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#17. What is beauty, but an extension of modesty?

Boonaa Mohammed

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