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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." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good." »Samuel Johnson
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"You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for" »Bernadette Peters
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"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards." »Arthur Koestler
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"When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves." »Dogen
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"The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before." »Johann von Goethe
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"I always have a quotation for everything, it saves original thinking." »Dorothy L. Sayers
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"I always have a quotation for everything-- it saves original thinking." »Dorothy L. Sayers
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"Never solve a problem from its original perspective." »Charles Thompson
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"Peeling an apple with a sword is not something original; it is vulgar!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman." »Honore de Balzac
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"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought." »Dorothy L. Sayers
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"When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes." »John Shedd
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"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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"originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions." »Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.
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"Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work." »Gustave Flaubert
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"We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own." »Harold Bloom
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"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." »Sri da Avabhas
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"A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education." »Smiley Blanton
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"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats." »Howard Aiken
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"A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it." »Bobby Jones
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"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author" »Philip G. Hamerton
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"Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark." »L. B. Walton
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"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?" »Philip G. Hamerton, "The Intellectual Life"
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"A great meal can be deftly managed or thuggishly muscled, either way resulting in an original offering of scrumptiousness." »Chase LeBlanc
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"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found." »Calvin Trillin
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