“I always have a quotation for everything--it saves original thinking.”
“I always have a quote for any occasion...It saves the effort of original thinking.”
“[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business."(The Record Lie)”
“A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.”
“They don’t think “I care,” “I hurt,” or “I have feelings.” It just seems like I’m always “wrong,” always “selfish,” always “self-centered” and everything else that’s negative and destructive.”
“Mr. da Silva had a relevant quotation for everything that happened to him and in this way evaded real life.”