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"What is originality? 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."
"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."
"None of my art is based on how others think i should have done it."
"People who copy you will always be one step behind."
"Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin."
"Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset."
"Originals cost more than imitations."
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"Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not."
"It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena."
"Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction."
"A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it."
"Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true."
"Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them."
"Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy."
"If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time."
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