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Originally Posted by Hitch
Tox:
We run into this all the time, particularly with older writers--many of today's newer authors don't even know the convention, but yes: if a person is having a moment of soliloquy, and going on and on with a long, multi-paragraph speech, the convention is, opening quotes on all the paragraphs, but closing quotes only on the last. And yes, it's a major pain in the tuchus, as you CANNOT know unless you read it.
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Well, it's more than a convention! I would call it a rule:
"If a passage consisting of more than one paragraph from the same source is quoted and is not set off as an excerpt, quotation marks are used at the beginning of each paragraph and at the end of the last paragraph." (Chicago Manual of Style, 10.29)
(I'm not trying to revive an old thread, just coming to grips with something.)