top of page
"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."
Standard
Customized
More

"Originals cost more than imitations."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Audiences deserve better."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Originality is undetected plagiarism."
Author Name
Personal Development

"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."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Don't imitate. Be original."
Author Name
Personal Development

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

"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
Love

"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."
Want

"Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods."
Relationship

"If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away."
Time

"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
Age

"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."
Talent

"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."
Writing

"Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality."
Friendship

"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
People

"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."
Love
bottom of page