• No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

  

  André Maurois

  WriterFrench1885 · 19th century

  4.7 · 28 votes · 193 reads

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• Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.9 · 34 votes · 103 reads

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• Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

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  Laurence J. Peter

  WriterCanadian1919 · 20th century

  5.0 · 42 votes · 171 reads

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• Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  5.0 · 25 votes · 115 reads

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• The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

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  Salman Rushdie

  NovelistIndian1947 · 20th century

  4.0 · 14 votes · 85 reads

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• The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.9 · 7 votes · 63 reads

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• The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  4.9 · 44 votes · 27 reads

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• The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.8 · 44 votes · 157 reads

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• The original is unfaithful to the translation.

  

  Jorge Luis Borges

  WriterArgentinian1899 · 19th century

  3.3 · 33 votes · 183 reads

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• The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

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  Richard Bach

  WriterAmerican1936 · 20th century

  4.5 · 21 votes · 49 reads

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• We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.3 · 59 votes · 54 reads

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• When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

  

  Jean Cocteau

  AuthorFrench1889 · 19th century

  4.3 · 38 votes · 149 reads

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• Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.9 · 24 votes · 50 reads

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