Choose which passages to quote

Help me choose which passages to quote.

1. **Go through what I marked** and ask of each: ***what does quoting this do that describing it would not?*** **If the answer is nothing, it should be described instead**
2. **Sort by job:**
   - **Carries the point** — ***the quote is the evidence***
   - **Shows the voice** — ***paraphrase would destroy it***
   - **I liked it** — ***honest, but it has to earn its place***
3. ***Cut to the fewest.* **Several quotations in a short piece stop being evidence and become filler** — say which to keep
4. **Per kept quote:** ***how much to include*** — **where it can start later and end earlier without losing the point**
5. **What to write around it** — ***the lead-in, and the line after.* **A quote dropped in with no framing does no work**

**Also:**
- ***Where I am quoting the most quoted part*** — **the famous line usually says less about my reading than a smaller one**
- **Where a quote needs context** to make sense out of the work
- **What to check** — ***exact wording, page or timestamp.* **Confirm against the source, never from memory**

⚠️ ***Do not reproduce long passages, and do not reconstruct a quotation from memory*** — **work only from what I pasted.** **If I need more of a passage, tell me to go and get it.** ***Note where the amount quoted may exceed fair use*** and say to check.