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Title: Quotation Collections
Keywords: Quotations, quotes, comics, Python, Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes

<p>Commonplace Book: My primary collection: over 275K of quotations.  <br />
<a href="quotations/">HTML</a> <a href="quotations.xml">XML</a>
 <a href="quotations.txt">Text</a> <a href="quotations.ft">Fortune</a>

<p>Comic books:
Various quotations from comic books.<br />
  <a href="comics/">HTML</a> <a href="comics.xml">XML</a>
  <a href="comics.txt">Text</a> <a href="comics.ft">Fortune</a>

<p><cite>Doctor Who</cite>:
A collection of quotations from <cite>Doctor Who</cite>.<br />
  <a href="doctor-who/">HTML</a> <a href="doctor-who.xml">XML</a>
  <a href="doctor-who.txt">Text</a> <a href="doctor-who.ft">Fortune</a>

<p>Quotations from <a href="http://www.neilgaiman.com">Neil Gaiman</a>, author of novels and comics;
focuses especially on the <cite>Sandman</cite> comic book.
  <br />
  <a href="neil-gaiman/">HTML</a> <a href="neil-gaiman.xml">XML</a>
  <a href="neil-gaiman.txt">Text</a> <a href="neil-gaiman.ft">Fortune</a>

<p>H.P. Lovecraft:
Quotations from the noted author of weird fiction.<br />
  <a href="hp-lovecraft/">HTML</a> <a href="hp-lovecraft.xml">XML</a>
  <a href="hp-lovecraft.txt">Text</a> <a href="hp-lovecraft.ft">Fortune</a>
  <br />

<p>The Python programming language:
Amusing quotations seen in <code>comp.lang.python</code>, or about Python.
  <br />
  <a href="python-quotes/">HTML</a> <a href="python-quotes.xml">XML</a>
  <a href="python-quotes.txt">Text</a> <a href="python-quotes.ft">Fortune</a>


<p>William Shakespeare: Quotations from the plays.<br />
  <a href="shakespeare/">HTML</a> <a href="shakespeare.xml">XML</a>
  <a href="shakespeare.txt">Text</a> <a href="shakespeare.ft">Fortune</a>

<p>Sherlock Holmes:
Quotations from the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.    <br />
  <a href="sherlock-holmes/">HTML</a> <a href="sherlock-holmes.xml">XML</a>
  <a href="sherlock-holmes.txt">Text</a> <a href="sherlock-holmes.ft">Fortune</a>

<p>Housing bubble:  Noteworthy or amusing quotations from the 2002-2006 housing market.<br />
  <a href="housing-bubble/">HTML</a> <a href="housing-bubble.xml">XML</a>
  <a href="housing-bubble.txt">Text</a> <a href="housing-bubble.ft">Fortune</a>

<p>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 <code>fortune</code>(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 <code>strfile.py</code> and
<code>fortune.py</code> from my <a href="http://www.amk.ca/python/simple/">Simple
Scripts page</a>.  They implement a simple version of the Unix
<code>fortune</code> program.)

<p>The XML versions are in QEL, the Quotation Exchange Language.  For
technical information and software, consult the <a href="http://www.amk.ca/qel/">QEL
home page</a>.</p>