dwyl/quotes

Attribution of "... Life is about creating yourself" Quote?

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The following quote:

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

Is attributed to [George] Bernard Shaw in the current version of quotes.json:

quotes/quotes.json

Lines 666 to 671 in db96789

{
"author": "Bernard Shaw",
"source": "https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8727",
"tags": "meaning, creativity",
"text": "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
},

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/09/28/create-yourself/ suggests it should be Sydney J. Harris

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However the Goodreads page linked to in the source: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8727-life-isn-t-about-finding-yourself-life-is-about-creating-yourself indicates that it's an accepted "fact" ...

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This is George's most "liked" quote ... https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5217.George_Bernard_Shaw

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Does it mean that he said (or wrote it...) or just that the Internet has liked it into being a fact? ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

What should we do? ignore or fix it?

annoyingly, Sydney J. Harris, does not appear to have this quote on Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/169034.Sydney_J_Harris

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So I'm inclined to leave it as-is, perhaps with an amendment to the author to include George's first name.

dannya commented

So I'm inclined to leave it as-is, perhaps with an amendment to the author to include George's first name.

This was fixed in 09ce0b885bc70e57dff0192e57084ef619014880.

dannya commented

Is there any further work to do on this issue, or should it be closed?

Thanks for fixing. Letโ€™s close. ๐Ÿ‘Œ

dannya commented

@nelsonic great, ready to close when you're ready.