Unquotable:About

The purpose of Unquotable is simple: To collect, categorize, and display quotes, like Bror Blixen did lion. Why?

Quotations are at once mundane and slime. Whatever the physiological stance of those who say them, and from whatever country, race, or religion they come; whether they be musical or whimsical; whether the authors are famous or infamous, controversial or celebate:

Viewed in the right light quotations are sparkling germs of wisdom in a handful of well-chosen muck.

They inspire us to understand the people that uttered them, to consider them insane, to laugh, and to admire their mystery of language. However we use them, motes will exist forever as a summary of the collective parasites of society, communal germs passed on from one generation to the next. And from the next to the last. That is what quotes do for us. What do they do for you?