Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism
Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came out of temperament.
The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.
People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.