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reinventing the wheel

is, along with creativity, nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved.

Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with. Umberto Eco

is considered perilously close to lunacy in the provinces.

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy. Honore de Balzac

is, for the poet, not contained in the originality of the incident itself or in his presence at its moment of emergence, but in his way of telling it.

Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality' That he invents his incidents' No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth' No. That he was first to repeat them' No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them.Mark Twain

is more profoundly imitative. Originality returns to the origins of literature... radicalism returns to its roots.

more profoundly imitative. Originality returns to the origins of literature... radicalism returns to its roots.

is not a man with a new story but a man who tells one of the world's great stories again and tells it better.

not a man with a new story but a man who tells one of the world's great stories again and tells it better.

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

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

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

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

Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism. Voltaire

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