{"id":1639,"date":"2003-10-25T21:11:04","date_gmt":"2003-10-26T01:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/10\/25\/and-i-quote\/"},"modified":"2003-10-25T21:11:04","modified_gmt":"2003-10-26T01:11:04","slug":"and-i-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/25\/and-i-quote\/","title":{"rendered":"And I Quote"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n
\n

Don’t you hate people who have a quotation ready for
\n any situation or emotion to make themselves sound sophisticated, intelligent
\n and erudite? I
\n have tried
\n to accumulate a corpus of killer quotes, but with a memory closely resembling
\n swiss cheese, I could never get the damn things straight. Now, thanks
\n to The Quotations Page<\/a> even
\n I can sound sophisticated, intelligent and erudite.<\/p>\n

Or, as Dorthy Parker (1893-1967) used to say, "I might repeat to myself
\n slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound
\n –
\n if I
\n can remember any of the damn things."<\/p>\n

Although I suspect I will end up agreeing with Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 –
\n 1882) "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." <\/p>\n

The Quotations Page<\/a>\n <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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