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“Everything seems an echo of something else.”
Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) American poet, novelist, and literary critic
"A Way to Love God", New and Selected Poems 1923–1985 (1985)
““There’s something else, Mr. Muzzlehatch.”
“I’m sure there is. In fact there is everything else.””
Mervyn Peake book Titus Alone
Source: Titus Alone (1959), Chapter 47 (p. 893)
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
Judy Garland (1922–1969) actress, singer and vaudevillian from the United States
As quoted in Business Etiquette for the Nineties : Your Ticket to Career Success (1992) by Lou Kennedy, p. 8
Variant: Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.
“Everything that is destroyed is either destroyed by itself or by something else.”
Sallustius Roman philosopher and writer
XVII. That the World is by nature Eternal.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
Context: Everything that is destroyed is either destroyed by itself or by something else. If the world is destroyed by itself, fire must needs burn of itself and water dry itself. If by something else, it must be either by a body or by something incorporeal. By something incorporeal is impossible; for incorporeal things preserve bodies — nature, for instance, and soul — and nothing is destroyed by a cause whose nature is to preserve it. If it is destroyed by some body, it must be either by those which exist or by others. … But if the world is to be destroyed by other bodies than these it is impossible to say where such bodies are or whence they are to arise.
“Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.”
Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Everything (he kept saying) is something it isn't. And everybody is always somewhere else.”
E. B. White (1899–1985) American writer
The Door http://fiction.eserver.org/short/the_door.html (1939)
John Boyne book The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket
Source: The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket
“I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.”
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor