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The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

George Bernard Shaw

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

Leo Burnett

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Simone de Beauvoir

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

Ezra Pound

Originality is merely an illusion

M.C. Escher

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even if you will eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky

Originality is the last refuge of a hero...

Donald Barthelme

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