![I won't say he [Shakespeare] 'invented' us, because journalists perpetually misunderstand me on that. I'll put it more simply: he contains us. Our ways of thinking and feeling-about ourselves, those we love, those we hate, those we realize are hopelessly 'other' to us-are more shaped by Shakespeare than they are by the experience of our own lives.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-wont-say-he-shakespeare-invented-us-because-journalists-perpetually-misun.jpg)
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