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Article: Pearls Of Wisdom Or Lowly Sound Bites?: There's been an explosion of
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- January 27, 1994
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Sandee Brawarsky
The Jewish Week
01-27-1994
Pearls Of Wisdom Or Lowly Sound Bites?: There's been an explosion of. quotation collections lately. What do they tell us about ourselves and our society?
SANDEE BRAWARSKY
SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH WEEK
"Quote books have been popular ever since John Bartlett," responds Pulitzer Prize winner William Safire when asked about the expanding presence on bookstore shelves of collections of quotations.
The New York Times political and language columnist, a self-described language maven, usage dictator and pop grammarian, was referring to the 19th century Cambridge, Mass., bookseller whose name is now synonymous with quotation books. The first edition of ...