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Quote Investigator @quoteinvestigator.com · 2d

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world

This remark has been credited to a person who created popular plays, movies, television programs (I Dream of Jeannie), and books (Rage of Angels). Who was it?

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Picture of Prague library of science, geometry and astronomy from Jonathan Francisca at Unsplash. The image has been cropped and resized.

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Quote Investigator @quoteinvestigator.com · 2d

We all die twice; the first time is when we simply cease to be; the second, when we are forgotten.

QI article updated with precursor citation in 523 AD from Roman philosopher Boethius

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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 5d

(hating myself for doing this, but not Hawthorne: quoteinvestigator.com/2014/11/05/h...)

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, apparently it's apocryphal. quoteinvestigator.com/2013/04/23/g...

Dialogue Origin: “What Do You Think of Western Civilization?” “I Think It Would Be a Good Idea” – Quote Investigator®

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The Enemy Within, I guess? @callic.bsky.social · 3d

George Burns wrote it in his third memoir in 1980.
However, other people are also credited with saying very similar things earlier.

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Quote Origin: The Main Thing Is Honesty. If You Can Fake That, You’ve Got It Made – Quote Investigator®

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 4d

The earliest known match for this expression occurred in 1954 which was many years after the death of Oscar Wilde in 1900. The linkage to Wilde appears to be spurious. The true originator of the quotation remains unknown.
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André Bernhardt ➡️ GIC / Poznan @indieadvisor.bsky.social · 6d

How go give a good speech? Three rules!

1st part: Tell them what you are going to tell them
2nd part: Well, tell them
3rd part: Tell them what you’ve told them.

Best advice ever!

🕵️Read it recently but it is funny to see the quote "wars" behind it: quoteinvestigator.com/2017/08/15/t...

Quote Origin: Tell ’Em What You’re Going To Tell ’Em; Next, Tell ’Em; Next, Tell ’Em What You Told ’Em – Quote Investigator®

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Quote Investigator @quoteinvestigator.com · 5d

We all die twice; the first time is when we simply cease to be; the second, when we are forgotten

Who said this: Hemingway? Banksy? Goethe? Laurie Anderson? Amelia B. Edwards? Sylvester Stallone? Anonymous?

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Quote Investigator @quoteinvestigator.com · 10d

Did Voltaire write the following? What was the original French phrasing?

One dies twice: to cease to live is nothing, but to cease to love and to be loved is an insupportable death

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Detail from the frontispiece to Voltaire's book on Newton's philosophy. The image depicts Voltaire with Émilie du Châtelet as his muse. She is reflecting heavenly insights. The image is from the public domain.

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Quote Investigator @quoteinvestigator.com · 12d

What was the name of the famous baseball player who said the following?

It is unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you've been playing all your life

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Quote Investigator @quoteinvestigator.com · 15d

Did Sir Edward Hulse author this paradox?

Humility is a strange thing. The moment you think you've got it, you've lost it

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Minimalist illustration of a bowing figure representing humility

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Quote Investigator @quoteinvestigator.com · 18d

Capsule review of the play "I Am a Camera"
No Leica

Did the prominent drama critic Walter Kerr create this terrible pun?

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D. M. S. Fick...scary kids, very scary @dmsfick.bsky.social · 18d

Was probably Walter Monheit® Oof!

Quote Investigator @quoteinvestigator.com · 18d

Capsule review of the play "I Am a Camera"
No Leica

Did the prominent drama critic Walter Kerr create this terrible pun?

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 18d

I leica this-a sleuthing by @quoteinvestigator.com!

Review Origin: “I Am a Camera” “No Leica” – Quote Investigator®

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 18d

This is *amazing*!

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Quote Investigator @quoteinvestigator.com · 18d

Your thread about a horrible pun attributed to Walter Kerr inspired the creation of a QI article. Thanks!
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Review Origin: “I Am a Camera” “No Leica” – Quote Investigator®

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Quote Investigator @quoteinvestigator.com · 18d

Here is the answer if you do not wish to visit the QI website.

Walter Kerr did not author the comical review. The most likely creator was the comedy writer Goodman Ace

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Review Origin: “I Am a Camera” “No Leica” – Quote Investigator®

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Quote Investigator @quoteinvestigator.com · 18d

Capsule review of the play "I Am a Camera"
No Leica

Did the prominent drama critic Walter Kerr create this terrible pun?

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Quote Investigator @quoteinvestigator.com · 19d

There is a thematically related 1774 Goethe quotation in the QI article about Hanlon’s Razor:

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Quote Origin: Never Attribute to Malice That Which Is Adequately Explained by Stupidity – Quote Investigator®

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Quote Investigator @quoteinvestigator.com · 21d

When did the following modern maxim enter circulation?

Assumption Is the Mother of All Foul-ups

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Quote Investigator @quoteinvestigator.com · 24d

The saying was incorrectly credited to St. Augustine way back in 1757. The history of this popular saying is quite long and convoluted

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Quote Origin: The World Is a Book, and Those Who Do Not Travel Read Only One Page – Quote Investigator®

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Shantha Mohan, Ph.D., DTM @shlead.bsky.social · 24d

I love to read how @quoteinvestigator.com reaches his conclusions! Master sleuthing!👏🏼

Quote Investigator @quoteinvestigator.com · 24d

Did St. Augustine of Hippo really coin the following saying?

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 24d

I’m reposting this so that I can note my constant disappointment that there aren’t a coterie of canonized figures identified as St. XXX of Rhinoceros; St. YYY of Giraffe; or St. ZZZ of Warthog, etc.

Quote Investigator @quoteinvestigator.com · 24d

Did St. Augustine of Hippo really coin the following saying?

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page

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Quote Investigator @quoteinvestigator.com · 24d

Did St. Augustine of Hippo really coin the following saying?

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page

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Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com · 27d

A thrilling and important essay about H.W. Fowler by @byagoda.bsky.social in The New Yorker:

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The Autocrat of English Usage

Henry W. Fowler believed he knew how sentences should read—and his judgments have shaped The New Yorker’s style for a century.

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