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Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.
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originality
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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writing
imitation
originality
maturity
plagiarism
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T.S. Eliot |
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"I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,
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inspiration
music
janis-joplin
jim-morrison
patti
smith
originality
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Patti Smith |
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Anymore, no one's mind is their own.
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life
originality
modernity
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are snowflakes--forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique.
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tragedy
life
insulation
originality
islands
isolation
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Neil Gaiman |
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He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world's store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library.
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influence
thoughts
originality
independent-thought
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Milan Kundera |
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Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.
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integrity
originality
awareness
creativity
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John O'Donohue |
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The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.
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independence
originality
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J.K. Rowling |
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The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.
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originality
plagiarism
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Malcolm Gladwell |
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"Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy?"
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stereotypes
writing
originality
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Umberto Eco |
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In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship--he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century has now passed, many members of the Guide staff still retain the romantic notion that he has simply popped out for a sandwich and will yet return to put in a solid afternoon's work. Strictly speaking, all editors since Lig Lury Jr., have therefore been designated acting editors, and Lig's desk is still preserved the way he left it, with the addition of a small sign that says LIG LURY, JR., EDITOR, MISSING, PRESUMED FED.
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humor
hitchhiker-s-guide
originality
wit
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Douglas Adams |
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"The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological processes become socially patterned, they lose their individual character. On the contrary, the sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology and arranged the means to give satisfactions which fit the pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation, in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society - and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic."
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sanity
individual
pathology
originality
individualism
society
insanity
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Erich Fromm |
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"Our lack of originality is something we usefully forget as we hunch over our--to us--ever-fascinating lives. My friend M., leaving his wife for a younger woman, used to complain, "People tell me it's a cliche. But it doesn't feel like a cliche to me." Yet it was, and is. As all our lives would prove, if we could see them from a greater distance--from the viewpoint, say, of that higher creature imagined by Einstein. "
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life
originality
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Julian Barnes |
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"You couldn't get more original than Laura. Laura. Yes, she was an original, all right. One of a kind. Did they break her mold or what, pal? Or...or did it ? Still, Laura. The one and the only. Such a plain name for a unique cutie. But perhaps my acuity is not without its problems. I ruin everything: a stupid story to be tapped out on my tomb's stone. I ruined even Laura. And an original ruin is rare. Just ask the archaeologist, "Egypt, again?" Just ask me, "Laura, again?" and we'll both respond: "Yes, again and again. And again."
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love
original
originality
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Vladimir Nabokov |
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Why should anyone be so grateful for acceptance unless he doubts that he is acceptable, and why should a young, educated and successful couple have such doubts, if not due to the fact that they cannot accept themselves because they are not themselves.
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individuality
identity
originality
self
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Erich Fromm |
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Greatness without models? Inconceivable. One could not be the thing itself - Reality. One must be satisfied with symbols. Make it the object of imitation to reach and release the high qualities. Make peace therefore with intermediacy and representations. Otherwise the individual must be the failure he now sees and knows himself to be.
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originality
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Saul Bellow |
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I think the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. When there are many writers all employing the same idiom, all looking out on more or less the same social scene, the individual writer will have to be more than ever careful that he isn't just doing badly what has already been done to completion. The presence alone of Faulkner in our midst makes a great difference in what the writer can and cannot permit himself to do. Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on the same track the Dixie Limited is roaring down.
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literature
great-writers
imitation
novelist
originality
writers
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Flannery O'Connor |
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The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything, from western clothes and hair styles to the European practice of colonizing foreign people. Unfortunately, they took up empire-building at precisely the moment when the cost of imperialism began to exceed the benefits.
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distinction
originality
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Niall Ferguson |
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
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originality
forgetting
creativity
creation
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Arthur Koestler |
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No matter how hard Miwako tries, Miwako can only copy her sister. Miwako loves to make clothes, but Miwako can't be a designer. Miwako has no originality.
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originality
fashion
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Ai Yazawa |