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A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
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Patrick Kavanagh
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21 votes
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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17 votes
All cases are unique and very similar to others.
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T. S. Eliot
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13 votes
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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John Stuart Mill
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17 votes
All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.
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Clement Greenberg
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18 votes
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
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De Chateaubriand
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18 votes
Begin with another's to end with your own.
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Baltasar Gracian
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6 votes
But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Herman Melville
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11 votes
I invent nothing, I rediscover.
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Auguste Rodin
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9 votes
I see nothing in it new and valuable. What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.
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Daniel Webster
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11 votes
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
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Tony Bennett
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70 votes
It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz
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11 votes
Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.
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David Packer
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7 votes
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
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Aesop
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77 votes
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
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Charles Baudelaire
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46 votes
No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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Andre Maurois
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60 votes
Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else --and failing.
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Raymond Radiguet
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17 votes
Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.
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Voltaire
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10 votes
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
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Laurence J. Peter
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14 votes
Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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John Stuart Mill
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19 votes
ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi.
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Alan Alda
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47 votes
People would rather be wrong than be different.
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Henry Jacobsen
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9 votes
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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10 votes
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
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Mark Twain
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7 votes
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
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Arthur Koestler
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14 votes
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Jorge Luis Borges
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39 votes
The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.
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Robert Bresson
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32 votes
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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Barbara Tuchman
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Jean Cocteau
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16 votes
When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
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John A. Shedd
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13 votes