#origin

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#fit #likely #masterpiece #original #reader

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#cinema #copying #done #establishing #first

The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not? ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#disagree #land #occupied #origin #problem

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate. ↗

— David Neeleman

#add #creativity #good #just #keep

You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#after #al-qaeda #bin #capturing #deputies

Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#essentially #originally #project #returned #trademark

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you. ↗

— Marc Newson

#be yourself #because #just #just be #just be yourself

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#fails #good #his #man #many

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#confiscation #conquest #had #history #invariably

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#gone #higher #him #his #history