What's the exact quote that goes something like "I am not my own person I am a collection of everyone I have ever known" and who said it? The way I word it sounds mean but the person who said it said it better.
2007-07-28 16:13:53 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
I've looked through politicians, philosophers, poets, athletes, dreamers, entertainers and just about everyone else and I can't find it. The bad part is I have heard it before.
2007-07-28 17:07:30 · answer #1 · answered by Max 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't have any luck finding the exact quote either. The only ones that come close are these...
How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you––you leave bits of yourself fluttering on the fences––little rags and shreds of your very life.
— Katherine Mansfield (English writer, 1888-1923)
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
2007-07-29 07:11:51 · answer #2 · answered by HawaiianBrian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Each one's himself yet each one's everyone." -Theodore Roethke
That is not the right one, I am sure, but it is the only one that comes to mind. Do you remember where you heard it or the context?
2007-07-28 23:27:50 · answer #3 · answered by Miss Mash 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋