Louis Menand Quotes

Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.

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An Englishwoman lecturing Americans on semicolons is a little like an American lecturing the French on sauces.

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There is a subset of quotations that are personal.  We pick them up off the public street, but we put them to private uses.

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Quotations are in a perpetual struggle for survival.  They want people to keep saying them.  They don't want to die any more than the rest of us do.  And so, whenever they can, they attach themselves to colorful or famous people.

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