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Please edit or correct or delete this quote. (part 3)
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Dec 15, 2013 05:52PM
Hi there. I've added a quote from Jane Austen with a word misspelled but I can't find the page for the quote, sorry for that. It's "A distinction to which they had been born GIVEN no pride". Please delete it. Thank you!
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Sophie wrote: "I deleted it. The correct quote is here: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9636..."Sorry! It seems you've deleted the correct one. It's https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9636... that should be deleted. Sorry for troubling you. Please delete that one.Thank you very much!
oh, so the correct quote is "gave no pride," not "given no pride"? I'll change it.
Hi, one of your quotes is incorrect. Goodreads claims that in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, a quote reads: "Take care of the sounds and the sense will take care of itself." In fact, it's reversed. The quote is on page 92 of the Annotated Alice, and it says "Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves." The quote "Take care of the sounds and the sense will take care of itself." is actually in a letter from Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer. So it's a real quote, just from a different person. http://books.google.com/books?id=bd0A...
http://books.google.com/books?id=YTrZ...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6365...Third sentence should read: "Someone capable and strong." Thanks.
Danielle wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6365...Third sentence should read: "Someone capable and strong." Thanks."
Done
Vonnegut or Lansdale ? V https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1717...
L https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1193...
Anna wrote: "Vonnegut or Lansdale ? V https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1717...
L https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1193......"
Vonnegut, I think. Done.
Hi,I need to change the book attributed to a quote. The quote was mistakenly attributed to Bella Swann's The Claiming of Angelica, the Supernatural Sleuth: Her Erotic Adventures in the Haunted House on the Hill but
it is actually from The Claiming of Angelica, the Supernatural Sleuth: Her Erotic Adventures in the Dangerous Elysian Jungle.
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes...
The quote is below:
“As Angelica opened up her eyes, she shuddered in fear at the massive animal that was holding her and fondling her body. I have been captured by a Bigfoot, she thought. The natives were right. There are Bigfoots in the jungles of Elysia. Her body stiffened as she tried to twist away and out of the imprisoning arms of the massive creature that was holding her capture.”
Thank-you
Can somebody please delete all of the quotes attached to me please, as they are not quite right. Thanks :)
Ceese wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4506...Not Tolkien's words, this wasn't actually in the book."
I've attributed this to Peter Jackson.
Please edit a quote I put under the wrong author. I made a typo with her name--- should be Irene Gut Opdyke but I accidentally wrote Irene Guy Opdyke. It's the only quote by this author so should be easy to find. Thanks! The quote is"We did not speak of what we had seen. At the time, to speak of it seemed worse than sacrilege: We had witnessed a thing so terrible that it acquired a dreadful holiness. It was a miracle of evil. It was not possible to say with words what we had witnessed, and so we kept it safely guarded until the time we could bring it out, and show it to others, and say, 'Behold. This is the worst thing man can do'."
Bridget wrote: "Please edit a quote I put under the wrong author. I made a typo with her name--- should be Irene Gut Opdyke but I accidentally wrote Irene Guy Opdyke. It's the only quote by this author so should..."Done
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes...The first three quotes on this page are actually from Unseen Things: The Hunt, not Unseen Things: Exploration. I accidentally had the wrong book selected when I added them.
If those top three quotes could just have the book set properly that'd be great.
Thanks!
Duane wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes...The first three quotes on this page are actually from Unseen Things: The Hunt, not Unseen Things: Exploration. I acc..."
done
B.E.L wrote: "Hello. Can this quote please be deleted. I'm currently having my manuscript edited and this is no longer in the novel so I no longer need it featured on my Author profile.
Thank you.
https://ww..."
Gone.
EDIT: That text would presumably still be in the editions that have already been published.
B.E.L wrote: "Thank you very much. :)I had some trouble last year with the editor not actually doing his job so I had to withdraw the publication before Origins was published. So it won't be in the manuscript at all."
Amazon are advertising the paperback with a publication date of December 1st, 2013 and with a look-inside on the first three chapters of the Kindle edition which suggests that they have had the book. Anyway, don't worry about it. It doesn't affect removing the quote.
This quote has erroneously been credited to Chris Colfer. He never said this. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5845...
This quote came from this Tumblr: zcatz.tumblr.com years ago. She said this, not Chris.
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Could someone help me remove a quote by myself that I added? It's actually an anecdote I should have added to my blog.https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...
Thank you.
Thank you very much. I will try not to get myself into trouble again :-).
rivka wrote: "The Tumblr blogger does not appear to meet our notability guideline, so I just zapped it."Thank you so much, Rivka. :)
Please delete this quote as it contains spoilers - is complete dialogue rather than just a quote (has too many fans for me to do it myself):https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1122...
And please can these be merged?https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3533...
and
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2826...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2181...
and
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2979...
And some more spoilers for deleting:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1120...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9482...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1123...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1554...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1120...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2181...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1887...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2426...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3937...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2181...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2181...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3139...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1617...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1613...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1944...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2599...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1121...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1615...
That'll do for now or I'll spoil it too much for myself as I'm still reading it!!
Please edit this quote:https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/996717
It should read "greatest gift", not "best gift".
Could you please delete the quote by me on my author page- I didn't want that there and I can't seem to get rid of it by myself!https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...
Thanks very much!
A.L. wrote: "Could you please delete the quote by me on my author page- I didn't want that there and I can't seem to get rid of it by myself!https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...
Thank..."
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S.K. wrote: "Please edit this quote:https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/996717
It should read "greatest gift", not "best gift"."
Done
Banjomike wrote: "S.K. wrote: "Please edit this quote:https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/996717
It should read "greatest gift", not "best gift"."
Done"
Banjomike wrote: "S.K. wrote: "Please edit this quote:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/996717
It should read "greatest gift", not "best gift"."
Done"
Thank you for your time!
Can someone do #645 & 646 for me please...? (it seems that standard Librarians can't delete quotes anymore at all)
Susie wrote: "Can someone do #645 & 646 for me please...? (it seems that standard Librarians can't delete quotes anymore at all)"I don't think that they need anything doing to them...
Keep in mind the recent, slightly mysterious, message from Otis concerning quote merging
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
In #646, the quotes in the first two pairs are different enough, in my opinion, to be left as separate quotes. The second pair in particular. I would think that the shorter version of that one is much pithier than the longer version but it is the longer version that would be left after a merge.
#645 and the rest of #646, is dialogue but so are half the quotes on Goodreads.
Susie wrote: "That'll do for now or I'll spoil it too much for myself as I'm still reading it!! "
Exactly! Precisely!! Don't look for quotes if you are still reading the book.
Banjomike wrote: "Keep in mind the recent, slightly mysterious, message from Otis concerning quote merginghttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."
I hadn't actually seen that message (was away quite a bit over Christmas). There certainly seems to have been some changes since then... It can be hard finding the right quote to like when there are so many duplicates about!
Banjomike wrote: "#645 and the rest of #646, is dialogue but so are half the quotes on Goodreads."
I must admit, I thought that there weren't supposed to be spoilers in quotes and with quotes that give away specific information, especially when there's a lot of dialogue, those are very much spoilers. Has that now changed?
I've don't even read reviews nowadays before I've finished reading a book (unless I'm checking it out), simply because of the amount of spoilers around!
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rivka wrote: "I am not aware of there ever having been spoiler limitations on quotes. Trivia questions and the first question in a quiz, yes."Thanks for the clarification. Not sure where I got that from, then. I must have confused it in my mind at some point with that, then. Although I was sure I'd seen that happening at some point (the quotes with obvious spoilers being removed).
Oh well, we learn something new every day!
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https://www.goodreads.com/trivia/add_...
and
https://www.goodreads.com/quizzes/new
with
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/new
I cannot absolutely guarantee that quotes have never been removed for having spoilers (for one thing, it's Friday and has been a very long week for me), but I don't think so.
rivka wrote: "I cannot absolutely guarantee that quotes have never been removed for having spoilers (for one thing, it's Friday and has been a very long week for me), but I don't think so."I hereby confess to having removed quotes that were, for example, Hercule Poirot explaining who-dun-it and the last paragraphs of novels which gave the entire plot away. I will do it again. Merciless, that is me.
Susie wrote: "It can be hard finding the right quote to like when there are so many duplicates about!"
I agree. Similar length variants should be merged but the ones you have listed are reasonably different. I can't guess how Otis would implement whatever he is referring to but merging essentially different quotes is not a great idea.
Susie wrote: "I must admit, I thought that there weren't supposed to be spoilers in quotes and with quotes that give away specific information, especially when there's a lot of dialogue, those are very much spoilers. Has that now changed?"
Not that I've noticed. I only mentioned it because you gave 'dialogue' as a reason for deletion.
Doug wrote: "This Winston Churchill mis-quote containing the word ugly is likely apocryphal.https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5806...
Unfortunately an assertion of non-existence cannot be sustained without an examination of the entire universe of discourse. That should be the burden of the originator-poster, to make an authoritative citation to the source, particularly for well published historical figures.
I was referred here by Paige O'Malley, CCR Goodreads "
This article is from the Churchill Centre:
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/suppo...
they conclude that one source of the quote was Churchill's personal bodyguard and that Churchill might have said something similar but that in any case he was 'editing' or paraphrasing a W.C. Fields quote from a movie. This article is interesting because it is written by Richard M. Langworth who is the editor of several books about Churchill including books of quotations (I'm not sure about the car books!).
This is from the QuoteInvestigator:
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/...
they trace versions of this witticism back to July 16, 1882 with many variations before Churchill could possibly have said it to either Braddock or Astor. The earliest versions were referring to the House of Commons so Churchill would certainly have known it.
The general view among these and other organizations and sites that have reviewed this quote seems to be that Churchill could possibly have said something similar. I've added "apocryphal" as a tag (meaning "of doubtful authenticity") because there is some doubt about the target who he might have said it to which does put some doubt on the entire quote but there seems to be no evidence that he ever denied saying it. Unless some new evidence comes up I think we should probably leave it since someone will only add it back if it is removed and it is still a funny quote whoever said it first or said a particular version.
Changing the subject slightly, I notice that the majority of the quotes attributed to the American author Winston Churchill are actually quotes by Prime Minister Winston Churchill. I'll sort them out later.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...
Gary wrote: "Would you please delete the following quotation I posted on 01.19.2014 because it contains a typo/proofreading error (i.e., "you you"). Please note I have reposted this quotation with the correcti...https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1003..."
Gone
These three are wrong. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2885...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5781...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9392...
The line "Those who were seen dancing were considered insane by those who could not hear the music." is a well known line by Frederich Nietzsche; not Hermann Hesse, Angela Monet or George Carlin.
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