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Hemingway didn't say that: the truth behind familiar quotations

Hemingway didn't say that: the truth behind familiar quotations

Quotations online are often inaccurate. The Quote Investigator presents a corrective popular history and helpful insights.

2017

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Quote Origin: There May Be a Great Fire In Our Soul, Yet No One Ever Comes To Warm Themselves At It

Vincent van Gogh? Joni Mitchell? Justin Lee Collins? Nellie Hermann? Apocryphal?

Nov 10, 2023

Quote Origin: There May Be a Great Fire In Our Soul, Yet No One Ever Comes To Warm Themselves At It

Nov 10, 2023

Quote Origin: The Book Publishing Industry Is Going To Be Wiped Off the Face of the Earth Soon

Matthew Yglesias? William Deresiewicz? Apocryphal?

Nov 9, 2023

Quote Origin: The Book Publishing Industry Is Going To Be Wiped Off the Face of the Earth Soon

Nov 9, 2023

Quote Origin: Sometimes Our Inner Fire Goes Out.

Albert Schweitzer? Jim Valvano? Erica Anderson? C. T. Campion? Apocryphal?

Nov 8, 2023

Quote Origin: Sometimes Our Inner Fire Goes Out.

Nov 8, 2023

Quote Origin: Time Flies; You Cannot; They Pass At Such Irregular Intervals

Mr X of The Royal Magazine? Boys’ Life Magazine? Anonymous?

Oct 9, 2023

Quote Origin: Time Flies; You Cannot; They Pass At Such Irregular Intervals

Oct 9, 2023

Quote Origin: The Next Best Thing To Being Clever Is Being Able To Quote Someone Who Is

Mary Pettibone Poole? A. A. Milne? Dorothy L. Sayers? Apocryphal?

Oct 8, 2023

Quote Origin: The Next Best Thing To Being Clever Is Being Able To Quote Someone Who Is

Oct 8, 2023

Quote Origin: To Live Is So Startling, It Leaves But Little Room for Other Occupations

Emily Dickinson? Mabel Loomis Todd? Rumer Godden? Apocryphal?

Oct 6, 2023

Quote Origin: To Live Is So Startling, It Leaves But Little Room for Other Occupations

Oct 6, 2023

Quote Origin: Be Sincere; Be Brief; Be Seated

Franklin D. Roosevelt? James Roosevelt? Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher? William ‘Buster’ Collier Jr.? C. Z. Weiser? Anonymous?

Oct 1, 2023

Quote Origin: Be Sincere; Be Brief; Be Seated

Oct 1, 2023

Quote Origin: We Have Not Got Any Money, So We Have Got To Think

Winston Churchill? Ernest Rutherford? Henry Tizard? Apocryphal?

Sep 27, 2023

Quote Origin: We Have Not Got Any Money, So We Have Got To Think

Sep 27, 2023

Quote Origin: The Struggle Between the Admitted Desire To Dress and the Unadmitted Desire To…

Lin Yutang? Sydney J. Harris? Carl Bakal? Anonymous?

Sep 26, 2023

Quote Origin: The Struggle Between the Admitted Desire To Dress and the Unadmitted Desire To…

Sep 26, 2023

Quote Origin: One Day in Retrospect the Years of Struggle Will Strike You As the Most Beautiful

Sigmund Freud? C. G. Jung? Apocryphal?

Sep 24, 2023

Quote Origin: One Day in Retrospect the Years of Struggle Will Strike You As the Most Beautiful

Sep 24, 2023

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Garson O'Toole specializes in tracing quotations. He operates the QuoteInvestigator.com website which receives more than 4 million visitors per year

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