Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted th

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This quote expresses the frustration faced by the speaker, who is dismayed by the misinterpretation and misrepresentation of their words by writers. They have experienced instances where quotes from their work have been extracted from their intended context or misused alongside irrelevant information, leading to a distorted or completely lost meaning. The speaker laments the consequences that such misquotations have had on their intended message.

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