“My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw–which I don’t mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker.”
Nigel Rees, Sayings of the Century
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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