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  Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspiring, Effort, Inspire

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September, 1999.

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• A poor original is better than a good imitation.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Imitation, Poor, Originals

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “An Ambitious Man (Annotated Edition)”, p.6, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.

  William Ralph Inge

  Plagiarism, Unconscious

  Quoted in Wit and Wisdom of Dean Inge, ed. James Marchant (1927)

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• Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.

  Guy Davenport

  Views, House, Different

  Ronald Johnson, Guy Davenport (1977). “Radi Os”

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• After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the student to endeavour to be original, and to remember that originality should not be undiscovered plagiarism.

  Henry Peach Robinson

  Creativity, Students, Study

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• Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

  Voltaire

  Generosity, Empathy, Imitation

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• Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.

  Salman Rushdie

  Challenges, Moral, Assumption

  "On Censorship". www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2012.

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• All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Religion, Dull, Christianity

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• Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

  Eric Hoffer

  Shows

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I don’t believe in originality. You take inspiration from whatever moves you and you find your voice in those things.

  Tim Walker

  Believe, Moving, Inspiration

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• The wonderful thing about theater is that anything, no matter how tendentious, no matter how stupid it sounds at first glance, can be made to work if it is charged with freshness and originality. You can have an entirely political Shakespeare production and I'll be sitting on the edge of my seat as long as it's surprising, as long as it's not just the standard, "out of the box" pseudo-transgressive production that we just see too much of nowadays.

  Terry Teachout

  Stupid, Long, Political

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Time, Funny Basketball, Stamps

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• The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality.

  Ned Rorem

  Memories, Flower, Keys

  Ned Rorem (2013). “The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972”, p.102, Open Road Media

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• Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

  Aesop

  Real, Men, Imitation

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.81, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Funny Basketball, Clamour, Quarrels

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

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• Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

  Eric Hoffer

  Tinkering, Matter, Chance

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

  Eric Hoffer

  Protest, Deliberate

  'Passionate State of Mind' (1955) p. 21

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• I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

  Tony Bennett

  Music, Thinking, Ties

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• Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

  Ansel Adams

  Fighting, Destiny, Men

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• About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

  Josh Billings

  Art, Honest, Judgment

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Writing, Reading Poetry

  The Sacred Wood "Philip Massinger" (1920)

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• All cases are unique and very similar to others.

  T. S. Eliot

  Unique, Cases

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Laughing, Want

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this is true of all of the rest of us. Striving after originality takes you far away from your true self, and makes your work mediocre.

  Keith Johnstone

  Men, Self, Trying

  Keith Johnstone (2012). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.88, Routledge

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• A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Society, Original Thought, Literature

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.20, Knopf

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