"I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’m gone which would not have happened if I had not come."

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children (via larmoyante)

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"All ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources."

-Mark Twain on the myth of originality in a letter to his friend Helen Keller, who had been accused of plagiarism.  (via explore-blog)

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"I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen."

-John Steinbeck, Winter of Our Discontent (via breathless)

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