#originality

Originality is the best form of rebellion. ↗

— Mike Sasso

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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Voltaire

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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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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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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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. ↗

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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