We Do Choose How We Shall Live

A Writer Can Get Into A Vast Deal Of Trouble Through Misquotation. If You Ever Want To Receive Lots Of Mail, I Recommend You Get A Shakespeare Quote Wrong In A Magazine Or Newspaper.

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I Am Not Merely A Habitual Quoter But An Incorrigible One. I Am, I May As Well Face It, More Quotatious Than An Old Stock-market Ticker-tape Machine, Except That You Can't Unplug Me.

While Reading Writers Of Great Formulatory Power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I Find I Can Scarcely Get Through A Page Without Having To Stop To Record Some Lapidary Sentence. Reading Henry James, For Example, I Have Muttered To Myself, "c’mon, Henry, Turn Down The Brilliance A Notch, So I Can Get Some Reading Done." I May Be One Of A Very Small Number Of People Who Have Developed Writer’s Cramp While Reading.

Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — Once Said That Anything That Can Be Read Twice Is Literature; I Would Say That Anything That Bears Saying Twice Is Quotable.