“We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices…”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Source: Crimini e misfatti
“We are all the sum total of our pasts, good and evil.”
— Glen Cook, book She Is the Darkness
Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 95 (p. 614)
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