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Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
~ Aesop ~
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
~ Tony Bennett ~
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
~ Jorge Luis Borges ~
It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, "Don't play like me, play like you."
~ Eric Clapton ~
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
~ De Chateaubriand ~
Begin with another's to end with your own.
~ Baltasar Gracian ~
All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.
~ Clement Greenberg ~
A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
~ Patrick Kavanagh ~
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
~ Arthur Koestler ~
Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.
~ David Packer ~
Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else --and failing.
~ Raymond Radiguet ~
When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
~ John A. Shedd ~
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
~ Mark Twain ~
I see nothing in it new and valuable. What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.
~ Daniel Webster ~
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