Commonplace Book: My primary collection: over 275K of
quotations.
HTML XML
Text Fortune
Comic books: Various quotations from comic books.
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Neil Gaiman: Quotations from the writer of novels and comics.
especially from the Sandman comic book. [Neil Gaiman's official site]
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Text Fortune
H.P. Lovecraft: Quotations from the noted author of weird
fiction.
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Text Fortune
The Python programming language: Amusing quotations seen in
comp.lang.python, or about Python.
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Fortune
William Shakespeare: Quotations from the plays.
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Text Fortune
Doctor Who: A collection of quotations from
Doctor Who.
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Text Fortune
Sherlock Holmes: Quotations from the Sherlock Holmes stories by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Housing bubble: Noteworthy or amusing quotations from the
2002-2006 housing market.
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Fortune
On Unix machines, you can use the Fortune format version of the
files to start your login session with a randomly selected
quotation; consult the man page for fortune(6) to
learn how. I don't know what programs are used under Windows or
MacOS to display random quotations, but am willing to convert the
file to new formats; please let me know what other formats should
be supported. (Alternatively, you could download a Python
interpreter for your system, and grab the Python scripts
strfile.py and fortune.py from my
Simple Scripts page. They implement
a simple version of the Unix fortune program.)
The XML versions are in QEL, the Quotation Exchange Language. For technical information and software, consult the QEL home page.
These works are licensed under a Creative Commons
License.