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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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"Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing."
"Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism."
"Originals cost more than imitations."
"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality."
"When ill luck besets us to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is?"
"Nature they say doth dote And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote."
"There is nothing higher-class than real craftsmanship, diversity, originality and the service of skilled human hands."
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"In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them."
"The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own."
"I am sure it is everyone's experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew."
"Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely."
"We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and see our illusions die."
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