evidence: An image shared on Facebook claims that Irish playwright Oscar Wilde once stated, "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." [...] The Oscar Wilde Society Chairman Donald Mead confirmed to the DCNF in an email that the quote is not genuine, writing, "This is definitely not Oscar. It is all over the internet with no source." [...] While there is no evidence Wilde ever coined the saying, it is thematically similar to several statements about identity found in his writings. In a 1987 letter to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, Wilde wrote, "It is tragic how few people ever ‘possess their souls’ before they die."