![]() What Leonard Cohen and Ernest Hemingway never said. I think people misquote for two reasons, always working together: a) they think something sounds smart, cool, or profound, and b) they’re lazy or careless. There is no reason to misquote something or someone unless you just really don’t care enough to try, or don’t care enough to be accurate. The Big Short opens with something Mark Twain never said. Postal Service misquoted Maya Angelou on a stamp. Megan Fox has a Shakespeare misquote inked on her skin. What is it about the internet and misquoting? What drives one to repeat something that someone else said without bothering to make sure that person said it? Why would you put something on your Facebook wall, why tweet it, why make it into a cute photo for Instagram without confirming that, yes, it’s a real quote? ![]() The seventh is a misquote of a line he said during a famous article by Dorothy Parker in The New Yorker, while the last one on the list sounds like the social media status update of a moody teen. ![]() I won’t catalogue all of these, but let’s say that they range from context-free to paraphrased to nonsense. Consider the following list of quotes, provided by Google when one searches for ernest hemingway quotes:
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