Randall Jarrell book Pictures from an Institution
Source: Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel], Chapter 5: “Gertrude and Sidney”, p. 214
“Life itself is a quotation.”
Quoted in Cool Memories (1987) by Jean Baudrillard, (trans. 1990) Ch. 5; heard by Baudrillard at a lecture given in Paris.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Quotation and Originality
Source: Prose and Poetry
“"Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.”
Willard van Orman Quine (1908–2000) American philosopher and logician
Quine's paradox, in "The Ways of Paradox" in "The Ways of Paradox and other Essays" (1976)
1970s
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Source: My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 9 (Education At Bangalore).
“Be careful--with quotations, you can damn anything.”
André Malraux (1901–1976) French novelist, art theorist and politician
“Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.”
Guy Debord (1931–1994) French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker and founding member of the Situationist International (SI)
Vol. 1, pt. 1.
Panegyric (1989)
Source: Society of the Spectacle
“The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted.”
Carl Van Doren (1885–1950) American biographer
As quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1941) by Alice Mary Smyth, p. vii
Context: The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.