Gary Saul Morson Quotes

An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.  It collects and displays masterpieces of phrase and thought in a small space.

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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.

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Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art.  They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to be displayed in an art museum or to a weapon moved from an anthropological to an artistic display.

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