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"The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels."
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"The most important trait of a writer is an authentic voice. Writers have to have faith in their own voice, and their own way of doing things. Originality is the gem that every writer possesses. Originality also brings on the most merciless attacks. The world resents originality in the beginning writer, and then rewards it abundantly once that writer has been successfully published. Cherish your own voice. Don't try to sound like anybody else. Sound like yourself and take the slings and arrows and keep going."
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"Ours was not going to be a clone of the usual expeditions, oozing with sleekness. It was clear from the start that oddity was our advantage."
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"I give no sources, because it is indifferent to mewhether what I have thought has already beenthought before me by another."
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"There is nothing higher-class than real craftsmanship, diversity, originality and the service of skilled human hands."
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"No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted."
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"No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original."
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"Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar."
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"The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels."
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"Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing."
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"No man was ever great by imitation."
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"One is not born a genius one becomes a genius."
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"I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat."
Nature
"At night I would climb the steps to the Sacre-Coeur, and I would watch Paris, that futile oasis, scintillating in the wilderness of space. I would weep, because it was so beautiful, and because it was so useless."
Beauty
"Symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like language, by the human reality."
Art
"My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy."
Philosophy
"Live with no time out."
Mindfulness
"To lose confidence in one's body is to lose confidence in oneself."
Acceptance
"If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression."
Society
"As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all at once I have come to see it in another light-it is a mutilation; it is the loss of a sense. The lack of it makes me blind to the needs, the pains, and the joys of those who do possess it."
Philosophy
"One night I summoned God, if He really existed, to show Himself to me. He didn't, and I never addressed another word to Him. In my heart of hearts I was very glad He didn't exist. I should have hated it if what was going on here below had had to end up in eternity."
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