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Image of Samuel Beckett
All has not been said and never will be.
- Samuel Beckett
Collection: Originality
Image of Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A poor original is better than a good imitation.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Image of Elizabeth Taylor
I'm not like anyone. I'm me.
- Elizabeth Taylor
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Image of Odilon Redon
My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.
- Odilon Redon
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Image of Sammy Davis, Jr.
Imitations only better the original.
- Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Image of Julie Andrews
I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else.
- Julie Andrews
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Image of Michael Eisner
Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.
- Michael Eisner
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Image of M. C. Escher
Originality is merely an illusion.
- M. C. Escher
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Image of Antonio Gaudi
Originality is going back to origins.
- Antonio Gaudi
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Image of Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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Image of Franklyn Ajaye
Originality is never embraced as quickly as the commonplace.
- Franklyn Ajaye
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Image of John Steinbeck
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
- John Steinbeck
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Image of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I really do not aim at any originality.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Image of Robert Bresson
The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.
- Robert Bresson
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Image of Ezra Pound
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
- Ezra Pound
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Image of Theodore Roosevelt
It is always better to be an original than an imitation.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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Image of Paul Cezanne
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
- Paul Cezanne
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Image of Mason Cooley
Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.
- Mason Cooley
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Image of Benjamin Disraeli
The originality of a subject is in its treatment.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Image of Paulo Freire
The multitude is always in the wrong.
- Paulo Freire
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Image of John Kenneth Galbraith
Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Originality provokes originality.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Eric Hoffer
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.
- Eric Hoffer
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Image of Eric Hoffer
Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.
- Eric Hoffer
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Image of William Ralph Inge
Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
- William Ralph Inge
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Image of Steve Martin
I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.
- Steve Martin
Collection: Originality

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