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The artist's duty is to defend the exceptional: the imagination. ↗

— Marty Rubin

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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All novels are sequels; influence is bliss. ↗

— Michael Chabon

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Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had." [Commencement Speech; Mount Holyoke College, May 23, 1999] ↗

— Anna Quindlen

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Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#new-ideas #open-mindedness #originality

He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely. ↗

— Adam Young

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Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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The unique must be fulfilled. ↗

— Martha Graham

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