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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.

There are elements of irony in my work, of course.

I rarely find that things put in quotes, attributed to me, are things that I said -certainly in the context in which they are presented.

It's a problem sometimes when you speak to journalists. They quote you, and then they read what they wrote, and then they even explain it. It's dangerous.

Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.