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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity. -- Marianne Moore
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. -- John Stuart Mill
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.... -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Originality is the art of concealing your sources. -- Benjamin Franklin
Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms. -- Anthony Storr
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi. -- Alan Alda
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. -- James Stephens
Originality provokes originality. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Originality is only variation. -- Holbrook Jackson
Originality is really important. -- Jim Carrey
Originality is undetected plagiarism. -- William Ralph Inge
Originality is merely an illusion. -- M. C. Escher
Originality is going back to origins. -- Antonio Gaudi
Originality is no excuse for ignorance. -- Fred Brooks
Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism. -- Voltaire
Originality is for people with short memories -- Grayson Perry
Originality will be rewarded in any line. -- Will Rogers
Originality is a return to the origin. -- Antonio Gaudi
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. -- Thomas W. Higginson
Originality is in the eye of the beholder. -- Mason Cooley
Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't. -- Eli Siegel
Originality is the art of concealing your source. -- Franklin P. Jones
Originality is being different from oneself, not others. -- Philip Larkin
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Originality finds the unexpected but inevitable next step. -- Mason Cooley
Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences -- Nikola Tesla
Originality is never embraced as quickly as the commonplace. -- Franklyn Ajaye
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism. -- George Henry Lewes
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. -- John Stuart Mill
Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint. -- Robert Sheckley
Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country. -- Robert Frost
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. -- Thomas Carlyle
Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing. -- Raymond Radiguet
Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes. -- Salman Rushdie
Originality is when you mix two things that haven't been mixed. -- DJ Marlboro
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. -- Herman Melville
Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism. -- William Ralph Inge
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. -- Thomas Carlyle
Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different. -- Guy Davenport
Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it. -- Steve Aylett
Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. -- Eric Hoffer
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. -- Edith Wharton
Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do. -- Walter Darby Bannard
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Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness. -- H. W. Janson
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. -- Voltaire
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. -- Nnamdi Azikiwe
Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done. -- Stephen Dunn
Originality is so hip and cool, but to be original you must dare to be corny. -- Bradford Winters
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. -- Laurence J. Peter
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. -- Georges Seurat
Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions. -- Antonio Gaudi
Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life. -- Barbara Sher
Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions. -- Antonio Gaudi
Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. -- Jean Guitton
What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly...timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend. -- Brandon Sanderson
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Credentials have been a problem for a long time in my work. Originality has been my strength, and credentials and academia have not been. -- Budd Hopkins
Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath. -- Marie Chapian
Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who can understand it. -- John French Sloan
Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst. -- Caitlín R. Kiernan
Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst. -- Caitlín R. Kiernan
Originality is always a strange thing. There's nothing original anymore. It's all something based on something in some way - even if it's not intentional. So that idea has been done. -- Nick Damici
Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation. -- George Gershwin
The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but it never had an original thought. Originality is the realm of the unconscious. -- Alan Garner
Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original. -- Lester Young
All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye. -- John Ruskin
The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born. -- Nikola Tesla
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. A society which gives unlimited freedom to the individual, more often than not attains a disconcerting sameness. -- Eric Hoffer
Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with. -- Umberto Eco
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. -- C. S. Lewis
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. -- William Ralph Inge
Insist upon yourself. Be original. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I invent nothing, I rediscover. -- Auguste Rodin
Don't be a blueprint. Be an original. -- Roy Acuff
Mistakes are the only universal form of originality. -- Mason Cooley
A poor original is better than a good imitation. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality. -- Robert Schumann
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. -- Arthur Koestler
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known. -- Chuck Palahniuk
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. -- George Bernard Shaw
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. -- Fran Lebowitz
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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
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. -- H. L. Mencken
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin. -- Antoni Gaudi
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. -- Beatrix Potter
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. -- W. H. Auden
The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality. -- Alexis Korner
I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice. -- Amy Tan
In this world, one thing you should definitely strive for is originality. Just be who you are, and be your own person. That's what will make you stand out. -- Nolan Gould
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. -- Ansel Adams
Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words. -- Bob Seger
The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at. -- Marilyn Manson
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. -- Steve Martin
There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out there, but they don't know how to go about it. I feel like there should be way more sexier women in hip-hop and R&B then it is - more originality. -- Tyga
Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of his life here, he never felt at home in Britain. This juxtaposition was a crucial source of his strength and originality. Because of his colour and origin, he saw the country differently - not as a native, but as an outsider. -- Martin Jacques
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. -- William Ralph Inge
Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere. -- Mason Cooley
Story is about originality, not duplication -- Robert McKee
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality. -- John Steinbeck
Dedication to quality, community, and originality without exception. -- Zach Klein
Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality. -- Arthur Koestler
A good imitation is the most perfect originality -- Voltaire
Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art. -- Martin Ritt
What nerve. Not even a modicum of originality. -- Samuel Goldwyn
I really do not aim at any originality. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The originality of a subject is in its treatment. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question. -- Ezra Pound
Only those with no memory insist on their originality. -- Coco Chanel
All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching. -- Charles Spurgeon
...originality is little morethan the fine blending of influences. -- Teju Cole
The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius. -- James Joyce
Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival. -- Coco Chanel
Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality. -- Diana Vreeland
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin. -- Antoni Gaudi
Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds. -- Edwin Land
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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