There are so many examples of this nature that, in early 2011, someone started an anonymous Twitter feed called @OldDianeRavitch, whose tweets consisted entirely of direct quotations from Ravitch dating to her conservative reform days. (newrepublic.com)
It is, or should be, as reliable as the most reliable reportage although it seeks a larger truth [my italics] than is possible through a mere compilation of verifiable facts, the use of direct quotation and the adherence to the rigid organizational style of the old form.» (creativenonfiction.org)
At one point in the evening, the following words are spoken (a close paraphrase, not direct quotation): «It was not our Fathers and our Mothers who were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt but we, all of us gathered here tonight, were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt. (religion-online.org)