“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
Alan Watts (1915–1973) British philosopher, writer and speaker
As quoted in Life magazine (21 April 1961)
“I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.”
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