May 2013
“What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of...”
– Anne Carson, ”Foam (Essay with Rhapsody): On the Sublime in Longinus and Antonioni”
“Quotations in my writing,” said Walter Benjamin on page 570 of volume 1 of his Collected Works, “are like robbers by the roadside who make an armed attack and relieve the idle passerby of his convictions.”
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