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"Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar."
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"Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar."

"Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague."

"Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing."

"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."

"Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality."

"You walk like others? You talk like others? You think like others? Then the world doesn't need you because others are already abundant in the world! Be original!"

"None of my art is based on how others think i should have done it."

"When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect."
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"The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time."

"There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience."

"Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges."

"One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them."

"Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones."
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