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Quotation Marks

18 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Martin Gardner
Martin Gardner Mathematician

"Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?"

Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic

"I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside."

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