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Topic: How to find source of a literary quote?
| Author | Message |
| JerzyGirl | Posted – 7/22/2007 6:33:40 PM | show profile Anyone know of a website on which I can put in a quote and find out what literary source it is originally from? Thanks. |
| writesonwater | Posted – 7/22/2007 10:49:30 PM | show profile I use google a lot. THe whole thing, or the most distinctive snippets. You can look things up in Bartlett's familiar quotations, same way. |
| harlemwriter | Posted – 7/23/2007 12:33:33 PM | show profile If it is in the public domain (i.e. not under copyright) you may find it on project gutenberg (gutenberg.org) or bartleby.com. But yes, google is always a good source too. |
