Quote Investigator

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Quote Investigator is a website that fact-checks the reported origins of widely circulated quotes. It was started in 2010 by Gregory F. Sullivan, a former

The School Librarian, the Thorp Academy's Beth Khalil concluded, "This site would be a very useful resource for librarians, teachers or students to use when studying a variety of subjects."[2] In April 2017, O'Toole published the results of many of his online quote investigations in the book Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ Seales, Rebecca (2017-11-13). "Let's save Maya Angelou from fake quotes". BBC News. Retrieved 2018-08-26.
  2. The School Librarian
    . 64 (3): 147.
  3. ^ Chokshi, Niraj (2017-04-26). "That Wasn't Mark Twain: How a Misquotation Is Born". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-08-26.
  4. ^ Cheadle, Harry (2017-04-03). "All Your Favorite Famous Quotations Are Fake". Vice. Retrieved 2018-08-26.

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