"It is not important at all that we were all once an ape! The important thing is that how very much we evolved and how far we got away from the apes!"

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But once an original book has been written - and no more than one or two appear in a century - men 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