” He must have stolen my story when he told you that, to make his own more interesting. That’s the trouble with telling anything–most people forget how or from whom they found out what they know, and there are people who even believe they lived or gave birth to it, whatever it is, a story, an idea, an opinion, an anecdote, a joke, an aphorism, a history, a style, sometimes even a whole text, which they proudly appropriate–or perhaps they know they’re stealing, but push the thought to the back of their mind and thus hide it away. It’s very much a phenomenon of the times we live in, which has no respect for priorities. ” (509) Your Face Tomorrow vol. 3
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