About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

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A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

quote by Walter Besant
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No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

quote by Thomas Harrison
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A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

quote by George Bernard Shaw
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A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy so he has only to copy to prove his originality.

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He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

quote by George Bernard Shaw
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Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

quote by Blaise Pascal
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When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

quote by Steve Lacy
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I Have No Need

i have no need for
originality anymore
i like the mockingbird
singing its song
on the rooftops
always mistaken
for myself.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

quote by W.H. Auden
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Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.

quote by Robin Cousins
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Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

quote by Jean Guitton
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I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

quote by Amy Tan
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The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation.

quote by Stephen Neill
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Birth of Originality

Satin-like – her wing
Breaks out of her mother.
She begins to drink the sunlight
Like a bottle.
A bottle of the mind.

But Destiny had jumped –
Died by way of his son –
The sensual evening before.
Before the birth.
The birth of Originality.

Destiny now stares through
Nothing in the
Silver soothing grave.
But in such a mind
Originality

May let her feminine growth be witnessed.
Witnessed like a marriage

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poem by Amy Marie
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The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

quote by Alexis Korner
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The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

quote by W. Somerset Maugham
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But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

quote by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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