Anthology Quotes

• A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

  Robert Graves

  Science, Medicine, May

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• Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it.

  Todd McFarlane

  Artist, People, Scare

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• Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.

  William Ernest Henley

  World, Possession, Ideals

  William Ernest Henley (1891). “Lyra Heroica: A Book of Verse for Boys”

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• The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom.

  Jane Garmey

  Educational, Flower, Greek

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• I believe in anthologies, although I know they offer only a glimpse.

  Leonora Speyer

  Believe, Glimpse, Offers

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• I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?

  Aaron Spelling

  Missing, Division, Stories

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• However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

  Eugenio Montale

  Book, School, Doe

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• The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Christian, Israel, Hymns

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• Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.

  Lynn Abbey

  Editors, Feet, Literature

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• You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.

  Robyn

  Book, Skills, Use

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• I have got an anthology album out. The American version has got the same mixes but the European version, I remixed them in the studio and added a couple of things that I have always wanted to add.

  John Entwistle

  Couple, Albums, Add

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• I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it.

  Judith Guest

  Couple, Stories, Enjoy

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• The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Running, Long, Firsts

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• David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.

  Terry Southern

  Son, Stories, Short Story

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• As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Writing, Long, Favors

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• An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.

  Gary Saul Morson

  Museums, Utterance, Quotations

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• A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.

  David McCord

  Sand, Handful, Universe

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• We know story collections end when they end, as well - the pages serving as a countdown - but nevertheless the standard story anthology hews closer to what makes being human so hard: it reminds you with each story how quickly everything we are, everything we call our lives can change, can be upended, can disappear. Never to return.

  Junot Diaz

  Stories, Pages, Return

  Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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• Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations.

  Gary Saul Morson

  Book, Boxes, Certain

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• What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Success, Heart, Envy

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.506, Open Road Media

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• making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors.

  Margaret Atwood

  Editors, Cities, Judgement

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• I'm so personally attached to all the characters I met and photographed over the years ... the anthology is like a photographic reliquary that could potentially preserve their grace, fierce joy, and restlessness.

  Hedi Slimane

  Character, Years, Joy

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• The Gettysburg Adress has been included, of late, in several anthologies of poetry. It actually meets the major requirement of all poetry: It is a mellifluous and emotional statement of the obviously not true. The men who fought for self-determination at Gettysburg were not the Federals but the Confederates.

  H. L. Mencken

  Peace, Determination, War

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• To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries

  Richard Dawkins

  Biblical, Editors, Evil

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.268, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.

  Calvin Trillin

  Book, Average, Milk

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

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