Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

quote by Anthony Storr
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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

quote by Edith Wharton
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Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

quote by Raymond Radiguet
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Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

quote by Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

quote by John Stuart Mill
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Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

quote by George Henry Lewes
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

quote by Thomas Carlyle
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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

quote by Charles Baudelaire
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Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

quote by Edward Carpenter
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

quote by Laurence J. Peter
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

quote by Nnamdi Azikiwe
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

quote by Beatrix Potter
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

quote by Arthur Koestler
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The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

quote by Arthur Koestler
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Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

quote by Georges Seurat
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Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

quote by Voltaire
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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

quote by Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

quote by Voltaire
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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

quote by Simone de Beauvoir
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Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

quote by David Neeleman
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