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Alan Alda
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe--you can't take a taxi.
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Bernadette Peters
You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
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Dame Edith Sitwell
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
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Dean Inge
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
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Edward Young
We are all born originals--why is it so many of us die copies?
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Eric Hoffer The Ordeal of Change
The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and now and then form new combinations.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
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James Stephens
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying what you think yourself.
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Jean Guitton
Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Conversations with Goethe, by Eckermann
People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end. What can we call our own except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance left in my favor.
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John L. Mason
While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
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John Shedd
When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
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John Stuart Mill On Liberty
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of... They are more in need of originality, the less they are conscious of the want.
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Josh Billings
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
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