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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. – Walter Benjamin

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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. – Walter Benjamin

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Opinion
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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. – Walter Benjamin

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Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that the thrill of making an anthology includes the opportunity to become such a coauthor. – Gary Saul Morson, The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture, 2011

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Quotations

Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings. – Hazrat Ali

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Quotations

An epigram is a gag that’s played Carnegie Hall. – Oscar Levant (Thanks, Garson O’Toole of quoteinvestigator.com!)

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Quotations

A proverb is much light condensed in one flash. – Charles Simmons

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Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. – Leon Trotsky

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