Quotes of Pierre Boulle - somelinesforyou

“ But once an original book has been writtenand no more than one or two appear in a centurymen of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are essentially imitators, provided, of course, that they are able to make use of language. ”

- Pierre Boulle

“ But once an original book has been writtenand no more than one or two appear in a centurymen of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are essentially imitators, provided, of course, that they are able to make use of language. ”

- Pierre Boulle
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