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Originality Quotes

"We’ve all forgotten how to be original"

"I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create"

"The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth."

"Think off-center"

"If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking."

"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all."

"I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own"

"One of the malfunctions of literary criticism is that it tends to create clothing patterns and then cut these patterns up to create garments. But that’s destroyed the books."

"Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places"

"Sometimes freedom from normal rules is what gives you the edge"

"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune."

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