“Say too soon what you think and you will say what everyone else thinks.”
James Richardson (1950) American poet
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
— Haruki Murakami, book Norwegian Wood
Source: Norwegian Wood (1987)
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