“They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do, which is what you are, only has meaning in relation to other people.”

—  Robert Penn Warren, book All the King's Men

Source: All the King's Men

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American poet, novelist, and literary critic 1905–1989

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