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Originality is merely an illusion.
M. C. Escher
Originality
Merely
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Creativity
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis
Noticed
Often
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Thomas Carlyle
Constantly
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Thomas Carlyle
Merit
Novelty
Originality
Sincerity
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W. H. Auden
Originality
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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
Jackie Chan
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Cinema
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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Voltaire
Originality
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I think more than anything, as a comedian, I grow tired of the unoriginality of 'crazy cat lady' jokes. It's a hacky joke based on an already-played-out stereotype.
Iliza Shlesinger
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True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision.
Edith Wharton
True
Originality
New-manner
Vision
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Even
His
Man
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The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.
Marilyn Manson
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville
Better
To fail
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The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler
Principal mark
Genius
Not perfection
Originality
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Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.
Arthur Koestler
Creativity
The defeat
Habit
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Originality is really important.
Jim Carrey
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings
Originality
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