#originality

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. ↗

— Voltaire

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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. ↗

— Edith Wharton

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Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script. ↗

— Douglas Wood

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No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

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Originality is undetected plagiarism. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

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Mistakes are the only universal form of originality. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin. ↗

— Antonio Gaudi

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Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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