#originality

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist. ↗

— Lukas Foss

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But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

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You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. ↗

— Malcolm X

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For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer that ever brooded in a lavender robe and a mellowed briar in his teeth, couldn't tell you, though e try for a lifetime, how the simplest strap-hanger will ask the conductor to be let off at the next stop. ... It is all for the taking. All the manuals by frustrated fictioneers on how to write can't give you the first syllable of reality, at any cot, that any common conversation can. All the classics, read and re-read, can't help you catch the ring of truth as does the word heard first-hand. ↗

— Nelson Algren

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Conceit makes the way God deals with me personally the binding standard for others. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#originality #life

A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor. ↗

— Sean Covey

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Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again. ↗

— Criss Jami

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We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

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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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Nowadays, all a man can do to be original is to cite the earliest known quote on that subject. Women, though, have no problem being original. In fact, women are always being original. I constantly have to tell my wife to stop talking so much nonsense. ↗

— Benson Bruno

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