Gary Saul Morson Quotes

Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.

An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.

A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.

We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.

The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them.