“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.”
-Mark Twain
Paine, Albert Bigelow. Mark Twain, A Biography: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Source).
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Interesting! Thanks for sharing 🌺
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Thanks for reading. 🙂
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Well thank God for that. My heavily influenced saga may stand a chance now.
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You may want to remove copyrighted names, just in case.
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I totally agree with you. I always think that anything completely new has to be alien in origin. Starting to sound like Fox Molder.
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🙂 True.
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Ecclesiastes 1:9
That which has been is that which will be, And that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun. – Apparently Mr. Clemens borrowed from King Solomon and all the new was used up even way back then.
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🙂 Apparently so.
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Then the guy at the beginning of the line must have been some really profound genius. 🙂
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Joke’s on you. THAT guy actually ripped off from his cousin, who heard it from her neighbor, who thought the wise man of the clan cited a blackbird…
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😁
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This and every artist is a thief.
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Pretty much. We’re into hero-worshipping but, often, the credit goes to whoever markets his ‘idea’ best.
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