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• Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

  Anthony Storr

  Enough, Accepted, Norm

  Anthony Storr (2015). “Solitude a Return to the Self”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

  James Stephens

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Writing

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• Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Funny, Positive, Witty

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 362, 1977.

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• Begin with another's to end with your own.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Creativity, Ends

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.58, Shambhala Publications

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• What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

  William Ralph Inge

  Funny, Creativity, Plagiarism

  William Ralph Inge (1929). “Assessments and Anticipations”, Cassell

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  Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspiring, Freedom, Autism

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• Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

  Alan Alda

  Inspirational, Genius, Territory

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• All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

  John Stuart Mill

  Positive Thinking, Fruit, Good Things

  'On Liberty' (1859) ch. 3

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• Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

  John Stuart Mill

  Mind, Use, Feels

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.64, OUP Oxford

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• Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

  Jean Guitton

  Numbers, Funny Basketball, Individual

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• Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

  Georges Seurat

  Art, Character, Drawing

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• Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Women, People, Original Thought

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Jan 14, 2011

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• What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  World, Tickling, Method

  George Bernard Shaw (2016). “The Critical Shaw: On Literature”, p.157, RosettaBooks

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• U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

  Bono

  Emotional, Feelings, Colour

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• Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Men, Range

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.163, U of Nebraska Press

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• It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Perfect, Matter, Indifference

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.331, Courier Corporation

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• Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Greatness, Watches

  Samuel Johnson (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson: maxims and observations. To which are now added, biographical anecdotes of the doctor, his life [&c.].”, p.103

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• I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.

  Sam Shepard

  Men, Needs, Helping

  Sam Shepard (1997). “Plays”

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• People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Creativity, Apology, Thinking

  "The Peter Plan: A Proposal for Survival". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.

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• It takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.

  Criss Jami

  Done, Fool, Courageous

  Criss Jami (2012). “Venus in Arms”, p.15, Criss Jami

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• I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

  Amy Tan

  Clever, Writing, Voice

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

  Steve Lacy

  Research, Awful, Imitation

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• I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

  Burt Lancaster

  Trying, Way, New Ways

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• Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Spiritual, Art, Husband

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• I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.

  Julia Roberts

  Romantic Love, Different, Watches

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