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Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

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.

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.