5 Great Quotations about Originality

“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.” - Neil Gaiman

“No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.” - Jan Neruda

“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” - Andre Gide

“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.” - CS Lewis

“The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.” - Dali

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