Originality Quotes
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![Chuck Palahniuk](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1391203076i/2546._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
― Invisible Monsters
― Invisible Monsters
![Jim Jarmusch](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1255273668i/314980._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."
[MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]”
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[MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]”
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![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
![Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1699348762i/11139._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
![Andy Warhol](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206565218i/1203._CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.”
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![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
![Mike Norton](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1488662178i/5177973._UY200_CR11,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.”
― White Mountain
― White Mountain
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.”
― Venus in Arms
― Venus in Arms
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
![Patti Smith](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1564508308i/196092._UX200_CR0,1,200,200_.jpg)
“I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,
that Joplin had the last drunken throat,
that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.”
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that Joplin had the last drunken throat,
that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.”
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![Neil Gaiman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1234150163i/1221698._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are snowflakes—forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
![John O'Donohue](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1334262182i/6224._UX200_CR0,2,200,200_.jpg)
“Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.”
― To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
― To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
![Michael Bassey Johnson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1614091882i/7189272._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different.”
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![Martin Heidegger](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1217243699i/6191._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner.”
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![Arnold Schwarzenegger](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1511570446i/67084._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?”
― Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
― Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
![François-René de Chateaubriand](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651463191i/40496._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.”
― The Genius of Christianity or the Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion
― The Genius of Christianity or the Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion
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