Quotation
People are very complicated machines – to get them to do what you want, you have to be very careful. You have to behave towards them in a very definite sequence. —NME – April 1979Read more about this topic: Mike Oldfield
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“In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now its lyric verse.”
—Evelyn Waugh (19031966)
“Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“We are as much informed of a writers genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, and find a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, the italics are ours.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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