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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
— Oscar Wilde
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
— Oscar Wilde
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Collecting quotations is an insidious, even embarrassing habit, like ragpicking or hoarding rocks or trying on other people's laundry. I got into it originally while trying to break an addiction to candy. I kicked candy and now seem to be stuck with quotations, which are attacking my brain instead of my teeth.
— Robert Byrne (The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, "Sources, References, and Notes," 1984)
