24 quotes found
“A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.”
“There is a great tendency today to want everybody to write just the way everybody else does, to see and to show the same things in the same way to the same middling audience. But the writer, in ord...”
“Unlike written words which can mend those leaving the tip of your tongue never bend.”
“More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts.”
“He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely.”
“Originality is the art of concealing your sources.”
“Utter originality is of course out of the question.”
“We do not inherit this land from our ancestors we borrow it from our children.”
“Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.”
“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours kindle it at hom...”
“Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before but in saying exactly what you think yourself.”
“What a good thing Adam had - when he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.”
“All cases are unique and very similar to others.”
“I invent nothing. I rediscover.”
“There is nothing new under the sun.”
“When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced and partakes of the nature of a protest.”
“All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.”
“Riding hard for glory.”
