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

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Originality is really important.

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

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.

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