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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Originality is undetected plagiarism.

W. R. Inge
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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. -John Stuart Mill
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Since there are only a few original people in the world, there is more uniformity than one might expect, in view of the large number who think they have something to say.

Leo Stein
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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
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Originality is merely an illusion. -M. C. Escher
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Josh Billings
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But we're trying to preserve the antiquity of the machine and maintain its originality, so we're doing it the old-fashioned way.

Pete Burno
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. -W. H. Auden
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Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

George Lois
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Originality is important. The athletes have worked their whole lives for this. They should shine.

Michael Budman
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Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. -Georges Seurat
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There's no freshness. There's no originality.

Joe Keenan
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ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

Alan Alda
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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. -Jackie Chan
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Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.

Robin Cousins
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They also look for originality.

Chris Koch
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. -Nnamdi Azikiwe
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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

Charles Baudelaire
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville
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The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. -Arthur Koestler
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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Edith Wharton
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Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

Anthony Storr
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The qualities in music I considered most important -- and still do -- were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity. -Paul Desmond
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His originality was apparent from the word go. He deployed an intellectual rigour that turned his droll imagery into icons of our time.

Allen Jones
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The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even / if you will / eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Joseph Brodsky
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You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful. -Andre Leon Talley
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Beatrix Potter
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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Dean Inge
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. -Laurence J. Peter
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