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If you are an American, using quotation marks could hardly be simpler: Use double quotation marks at all times unless quoting something within a quotation, when you use single. It’s different in the ...

"We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all we’re not savages." "I will live in the past, present and the future." "I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that ...

choose your quotations carefully and keep them brief (a line or two at most is usually enough, but a word or phrase may also be fine) fit it into the flow of your writing explain what the quotation ...