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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?

5 min readNov 10, 2023

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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

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

Matthew Yglesias? William Deresiewicz? Apocryphal?

3 min readNov 9, 2023

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

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Quote Origin: Sometimes Our Inner Fire Goes Out.

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

4 min readNov 8, 2023

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Quote Origin: Sometimes Our Inner Fire Goes Out.

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

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

4 min readOct 9, 2023

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

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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?

3 min readOct 8, 2023

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

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

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

5 min readOct 6, 2023

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

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Quote Origin: Be Sincere; Be Brief; Be Seated

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

6 min readOct 1, 2023

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Quote Origin: Be Sincere; Be Brief; Be Seated

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

Winston Churchill? Ernest Rutherford? Henry Tizard? Apocryphal?

7 min readSep 27, 2023

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

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

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

4 min readSep 26, 2023

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

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

Sigmund Freud? C. G. Jung? Apocryphal?

3 min readSep 24, 2023

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

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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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