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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
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Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
James Marchant - Wit and Wisdom of Dean Inge -
Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.
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Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality.
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men.
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
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The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
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The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.
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There are certain epochs in art when simplicity is audacious originality.
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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
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What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
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When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality.
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