Finally someone just came up and said it. In this case a German writer
named Durs Gunbien uncovered the truth about quotations and their sneaky ways
of tangling themselves into our words and slowly feasting on our credibility
and potential. Believe me as I confess that
the easiest way for me to express my deepest most opinioned thoughts is by
quoting Gunbein and his penetrating metaphors, but he couldn’t be more correct
about the abusiveness of quotes in texts. Every time I’m writing a paper I can’t
help but realize that there is no better way of proving my argument than by
writing word by word what someone with a greater authority on the subject has
to say. When I look back and read some of my analytical essays that are
overflown with quotations, it makes me sound weak and intimidated. Yeah that
might sound a little too much but isn’t that what quoting is? I mean if there’s
this really important part in a speech well duh fire away and quote” like their
aint no tomorrow,” but if you get to a point where you can’t say it better than
he/she then change the subject. God I hope I’m quoting correctly it would be
awkward if I wasn’t.
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