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From: John Saillant <oieahc@YAHOO.COM>
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Editor's Subject: "Quotations" assuming a life of their own [J Butler]
Author's Subject: "Quotations" assuming a life of their own [J Butler]
Date Written: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 08:38:17 -0400
Date Posted: Tue, 21 Oct 2013 08:38:17 -0400

I'd like to second R. B. Bernstein's suggestion that the discussion of
spurious quotations continue with examples across any spectrum,
political or any other.  My own interest in the original discussion was
not with the Tea Party but in how quotations appear yet cannot be traced
to any known source.

An example I'm currently trying to trace is FAR from early American
history - the early twentieth-century futurist artist, Joseph Stella,
who is quoted all over the web with the following:  "I have seen the
future and it is good. We will wipe away the religions of old and start
anew."  This one can be found at http://www.answers.com/topic/stella-joseph

It's just the kind of statement one might expect from a futurist.  But
so far, no source can be located, and it doesn't appear in (the
relatively few) works on Stella.  Still, like so many vivid
"quotations," it has taken on a little life of its own.

Jon Butler

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