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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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"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!"
"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."
"She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before."
"The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels."
"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."
"There is nothing higher-class than real craftsmanship, diversity, originality and the service of skilled human hands."
"Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, but they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple."
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"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest."
"So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises."
"I will love you forever' swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. 'I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday' - Is that still as easy?"
"We are, for all our polish, of littlestature, and, as human lives,compared with authentic martyrs,of no account."
"O stand, stand at the window As the tears scald and start;You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart."
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