“Be careful--with quotations, you can damn anything.”
André Malraux (1901–1976) French novelist, art theorist and politician
“I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.”
"The Little Hours" in Here Lies (1939)
Source: Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker
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