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"Originality is undetected plagiarism."
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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."
"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."
"I give no sources, because it is indifferent to mewhether what I have thought has already beenthought before me by another."
"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."
"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."
"Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar."
"Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing."
"None of my art is based on how others think i should have done it."
"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."
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"Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself."
"In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted."
"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours."
"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."
"I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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