Fred R. Shapiro
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Fred R. Shapiro is associate librarian and lecturer in legal research at the Yale Low School.
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2) It is one of the few "reference" works that you'll be tempted to read straight through. I did.
3) One does get the feeling upon completion that the majority of quotable people found life not to be a dream but a nightmare.
4) The editors make no secret of the fact that they have sought to further social justice (as they see it) in their selection of what quotations to include. I can live with that. Not all quotation books have to be the same. If the more obscure quotations they've chosen fail to impress, readers' opinions may be swayed in the opposite of their intended direction. I'm okay with that, too.
5) I'm puzzled by the seemingly random choice of song lyrics to include. "Break My Stride" by Matthew Wilder? Why?
6) The editors have tried very hard to track down the first person to say each quote, but it ends up seeming a Sisyphean task. Again and again, a statement is discovered to have been used decades before its ostensible debut. It's enough to make one think that the collective unconscious or linguistic convergence are real.… (mehr)