What's your favorite yet least quotable book/movie? Then attempt to quote them to show just how that doesn't seem to work.

This trailer pretty much spoils the whole movie but also doesn't make it seem like a good movie, but it is!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4LmmUEgaAU

To Kill With Intrigue - Jacky Chan

I haven't seen Blind Shaft but the trailer actually got me interested, more than a bunch of wordless scenes of miners trudging about and coal on conveyor belts would have.

I frequently face this issue when showing my wife a trailer of something I've seen that she might want to watch. I'm often saying afterwards, "that's not actually what it's like".

I can't think of a "real" answer to this yet, but I was thinking while reading the Proust thread that I can't just read a paragraph of his writing that someone copies to the thread. It's either concentrating for several pages or nothing; and I don't know if many people would be attracted to his work by reading it quoted in that context.

It's funny that you only need to mention madeleine to conjure Proust, so in a roundabout way Proust is maybe one of the most quotable authors around.
But maybe it's telling that _____? c'est moi! as an endlessly reusable meme is about the book rather than from the book.

I was thinking for as many Mark Twain quotes that circulate, I don't think many (or any?!) are actually from his books.

before i read your post, i was thinking of huckleberry finn, which is written in slang and features much language that does not fly anymore

yeah like "I’ve always reckoned that looking at the new moon over your left shoulder is one of the carelessest and foolishest things a body can do. Old Hank Bunker done it once, and bragged about it; and in less than two years he got drunk and fell off of the shot-tower, and spread himself out so that he was just a kind of a layer, as you may say; and they slid him edgeways between two barn doors for a coffin, and buried him so, so they say, but I didn’t see it. Pap told me. But anyway it all come of looking at the moon that way, like a fool."