#originality

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

— Burt Lancaster

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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality. ↗

— Yann Martel

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The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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