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Please edit or correct or delete this quote. (part 3)
Edited to change "you" to "your" in first sentence of 557
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5587... not a quote from the story.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8242... this is in the story but it is a quote from a poem by Wallace Stevens. salem's lot: http://books.google.com/books?id=i-KR...
true poem: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/pr...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8242... this is in the story but it is a quote from a poem by Wallace Stevens. salem's lot: http://books.google.com/books?id=i-KR...
true poem: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/pr...
Corinne wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5587... not a quote from the story.https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8242......"
All sorted. First one removed, second on reattributed & combined.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5924...
The same quote appears twice under two different author names, please look into it.https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1305...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8512...
Anwesha wrote: "The same quote appears twice under two different author names, please look into it.https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1305...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8512..."
The correct version is the George Bernard Shaw. Combined the mark Twain.
I have messed up a quote that I just added. The author is supposed to be "Alexander McCall Smith," but I inadvertently added it after typing just "Alexander Mc". The book should be shown as The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party; I didn't get that far before creating the quote. Also, I hadn't finished editing, and there is a superfluous k before "yard" in the 1st or 2nd line. I would be very happy if you would make the necessary corrections. Thanks. The quote as I created it reads: "There were always such dwellings--the abode of the cook or the man who tended the kyard, or the woman who did the washing and ironing; so normal and unexceptionable as to attract no attention, the places where lives were led in the shadow of the employer in the larger house. And the cause, Mma Ramotswe knew from long experience, of deep resentments and, on occasion, murderous hatreds. Those flowed from exploitation and bad treatment--the things that people would do to one another with utter predictability and inevitability unless those in authority made it impossible and laid down conditions of employment. She had seen shocking things in the course of her work, even here in Botswana, a good country where things were well run and people had rights; human nature, of course, would find its way round the best of rules and regulations."
location: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/sear...
O nevermind, someone fixed everything (I fixed the typo, though!) :-)
Please remove the Eudora Welty quote I accidentally listed under "Quotes by Maryka Biaggio." Find at: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...Thank you!
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6550...Could you please remvove "The Collected Poems" from the source? "Mad Girl's Love Song" isn't a part of The Collected Poems.
Thx.
anolta wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6550...Could you please remvove "The Collected Poems" from the source? "Mad Girl's Love Song" isn't a part of The Collected Poems."
Changed it to The Bell Jar.
@BanjomikeThx, but no. Please don't attribute it to The Bell Jar. It's a poem that still remains uncollected in any book.
anolta wrote: "@BanjomikeThx, but no. Please don't attribute it to The Bell Jar. It's a poem that still remains uncollected in any book."
It is in my ebook copy of The Bell Jar. In the biographical note, under a Plath picture of a boat.
I know, it's generally included in the biographical note appended to The Bell Jar, but it has never been a part of the text. I think attributing it to The Bell Jar, is really misleading, since it's not included in every edition and it certainly hasn't been included there by Sylvia Plath herself.
anolta wrote: "I know, it's generally included in the biographical note appended to The Bell Jar, but it has never been a part of the text. I think attributing it to The Bell Jar, is really misleading, since it's..."If we don't say it is from The Bell Jar then there is really no other attribution possible. I checked several editions of The Bell Jar and, these days at least, it seems to be a standard part of the text. The alternative is to point readers towards a sixty-year old magazine as the only possible source of the text (other than websites) which would be a shame.
Could you please edit my last quote entry under, Annalee Hopkins. It's number 19 and says "me" instead of "we".
Thanks so very much.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7488...Is a quote attributed to Frida Kahlo, but is actually a poem titled "Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell" by Marty McConnell
via Marty's LJ: http://martyoutloud.livejournal.com/2...
There are numerous videos of her performing it live in 2008 at Hampshire College: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uno-no...
combine but none of them are exactly the same.
From Wiki: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Gre... "You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."
1. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2991...
2. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7988...
3 https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8603...
They are all a little different from the wiki version but #1 is correct.
EDIT: This has been done
From Wiki: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Gre... "You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."
1. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2991...
2. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7988...
3 https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8603...
They are all a little different from the wiki version but #1 is correct.
EDIT: This has been done
As it says in the book, this quote is not by Nicholas Sparks but an excerpt from the Jerusalem Bible:https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1590...
Annalee wrote: "Could you please edit my last quote entry under, Annalee Hopkins. It's number 19 and says "me" instead of "we".
Thanks so very much."
Quote Guidelines
Only enter quotes from notable people. Generally, a person is notable if they have been the subject of published secondary source material which is reliable, intellectually independent, and independent of the subject.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/new
Gerd wrote: "As it says in the book, this quote is not by Nicholas Sparks but an excerpt from the Jerusalem Bible:https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1590..."
Fixed.
Melody wrote: "Annalee wrote: "Could you please edit my last quote entry under, Annalee Hopkins. "
I did ask Annalee that question back in message 538.
Did you remove all her quotes?
Melody wrote: "I did"Fair enough. If she won't reply to relevant questions...
https://www.goodreads.com/storyHere is the link to add creative writing - which could include personal quotes.
Can a librarian please delete these two quotes from my page: “Whenever we write, we are immortalizing our words with ink.”
“Once you open your eyes to the world you will find writing possibilities everywhere.”
Thank you!
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...
Chrys wrote: "Can a librarian please delete these two quotes from my page: “Whenever we write, we are immortalizing our words with ink.”
"Once you open your eyes to the world you will find writing possibilities everywhere.”
Thank you!
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot..."
Did you add both of them to Goodreads?
Banjomike wrote: "Chrys wrote: "Can a librarian please delete these two quotes from my page: “Whenever we write, we are immortalizing our words with ink.”
"Once you open your eyes to the world you will find writ..."
Yes. They are both listed under quotes I've done (on my author page). And I can't delete them. I had included the link that'll bring you to the list of my quotes.
Chrys wrote: "Yes. They are both listed under quotes I've done (on my author page). And I can't delete them. I had included the link that'll bring you to the list of my quotes."
Yes, I know, but thanks to a recent 'update' (or bug) it is no longer possible to tell who added a quote.
Banjomike wrote: "Chrys wrote: "Yes. They are both listed under quotes I've done (on my author page). And I can't delete them. I had included the link that'll bring you to the list of my quotes."
Yes, I know, but ..."
Thank you for taking them down for me. :)
Can you, please, edit this quote:https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9467...
to add the book it belongs to. It's Chronicles of the Black Company.
Thank you!
Lady*M wrote: "Can you, please, edit this quote:https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9467...
to add the book it belongs to. It's Chronicles of the Black Company.
..."
Done
Banjomike wrote: "Lady*M wrote: "Can you, please, edit this quote:https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9467...
to add the book it belongs to. It's Chronicles of the B..."
Thank you!
Please can you delete these quotes:“We are using up emotions so rapidly that soon we're going to start a relationship by asking if someone wants to be our ex-partner”
“Don't be one of those people who haven’t met themselves yet”
“Each ownership creates more need”
al by SE Sever: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...
Patrick wrote: "Please can you delete these quotes:“We are using up emotions so rapidly that soon we're going to start a relationship by asking if someone wants to be our ex-partner”
“Don't be one of those people who haven’t met themselves yet”
“Each ownership creates more need”
al by SE Sever: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot... "
Done.
Mela Lynn wrote: "This is the quote that needs to be deleted: This man edited it a little to make it his own. A clear violation of copyright. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4631..."Probably not. Most quotes are added by fans, not by the authors themselves. The José N. Harris quote is not exactly the same as the Steve Maraboli quote (to my mind it reads somewhat better) and could have been correctly cited (perhaps as paraphrased) in the Harris book (or wherever the quote may come from) so accusing the author (or anyone else) of editing it is not justified.
Having said that, the Harris quote is not really different enough to stay by itself. Combined.
Are you part of Maraboli's team?
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/952092I made a mistake on the word "preserving", could someone please amend? (Also, please change book to "the god delusion")
Thanks!!
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6208...Credited here to William F. Gladstone, but also finding it attributed to "President J. Reuben Clark, Jr.". Someone who knows more on quotes suggest who actually said this? :/
Emy wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6208...Credited here to William F. Gladstone, but also finding it attributed to "President J. Reuben Clark, Jr.". Someone who knows more on quotes suggest who actually said this? :/"
A better question might be "Who on earth is (or was) William F. Gladstone"?
The Reuben Clark reference could be a mistake from a 1973 document where that name appears with the quote and is attributed to President Boyd K. Packer who actually attributed it to "Gladstone" without mentioning which one he meant. Needs more work.
William Ewart Gladstone possibly? Other than that, no idea - back to you :D
Emy wrote: "William Ewart Gladstone possibly? Other than that, no idea - back to you :D"I've added "attributed no source" for starters. The quote itself only has about 40 links so attributing it to the famous William Gladstone seems unlikely. It is possible that William F. (whoever he might be) did say it and that it is his only claim to fame.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5578..."I may have lost a battle, but not the war" was not from Napoleon. The quote is usually attributed to De Gaulle, albeit in a slightly different form: "France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war."
Source is from a poster printed in 1940: http://www.histoire-image.org/site/oe...
Leo wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5578..."I may have lost a battle, but not the war" was not from Napoleon. The quote is usually attributed to De Gaulle, albeit in a slightly different form: "France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war."
Source is from a poster printed in 1940: http://www.histoire-image.org/site/oe..."
Done.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3025...The word "repetitive" is misspelled in this quote. I can't edit it because it has over 500 likes.
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