You start Saul, and end up Paul (Ralph Ellison)

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'You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts trying to be Paul - though you still Saul around on the side.'

Ralph Ellison (in Invisible Man)