About The Most Originality That Any Writer Can Hope To Achieve Honestly Is To Steal With Good Judgment.
It Is Sometimes Necessary To Repeat What All Know. All Mapmakers Should Place The Mississippi In The Same Location And Avoid Originality.
Nearly All Our Originality Comes From The Stamp That Time Impresses Upon Our Sensibility.
There Is No Such Thing As Originality. It Has All Been Said Before, Suffered Before. If A Person Knows That, Is It Any Wonder Love Becomes Mechanical And Death Just A Scene To Be Shunned? There Is No Absolute Knowledge To Be Gained From Either. Just Another Ride On The Merry-go-round, Another Blurred Scene Of Faces Smiling And Faces Grieved.
The Greater A Man's Talents, The More Marked His Idiosyncracies. Yet In The Provinces Originality Is Considered Perilously Close To Lunacy.
I'd Like To Be An Original, To Be Myself And Not A Pale Copy Of Anyone Else.
I'd Like To Be An Original, To Be Myself And Not A Pale Copy Of Anyone Else.
Not Like Homer Would I Write, Not Like Dante If I Might, Not Like Shakespeare At His Best, Not Like Goethe Or The Rest, Like Myself, However Small, Like Myself, Or Not At All.
