‘I began doing away not only with quotation marks to distinguish dialogue but any means at all of distinguishing dialogue from narrative’. No words that matter in the way the question suggests can really be called a ‘quote’.
The prompt I chose today asks this: ‘Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?’ If I am live my life with anything like significant assistance of a few linked words, then those words can not really be described as a ‘quote’, for whatever the specificity of their individuality … More ‘I began doing away not only with quotation marks to distinguish dialogue but any means at all of distinguishing dialogue from narrative’. No words that matter in the way the question suggests can really be called a ‘quote’.

