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Saturday, 11 October 2008

Daily Quote: "It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it." (Byron, Lord - Life and Living)

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A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

-- Kavanagh, Patrick | Originality

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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

-- Mencken, H. L. | Originality

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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

-- Holmes, Oliver Wendell | Originality

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All cases are unique and very similar to others.

-- Eliot, T. S. | Originality

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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

-- Mill, John Stuart | Originality

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All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

-- Greenberg, Clement | Originality

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An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

-- De Chateaubriand | Originality

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Begin with another's to end with your own.

-- Gracian, Baltasar | Originality

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But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

-- Melville, Herman | Originality

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Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

-- Stanislavisky, Konstantin | Originality

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Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

-- Bruyere, Jean De La | Originality

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I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the part that was good was not original.

-- Johnson, Samuel | Originality

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I invent nothing, I rediscover.

-- Rodin, Auguste | Originality

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I see nothing in it new and valuable. What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

-- Webster, Daniel | Originality

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I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

-- Bennett, Tony | Originality

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