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#1

“If you don't wear lipstick, I can't talk to you.”
― Isabella Blow

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#2

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction

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#3

“Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.”
― Henry Lawson

tags: humor

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#4

“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

tags: philosophy

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#5

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Buckminster Fuller

tags: activism, adaption, change, development, digital-revolution, future, movement, new-models, p2p, progress, progression, protest, revolution, science, society, structural-changes, technology, world, zeitgeist, zeitgeist-movement

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#6

“Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: awkward, creative, creativity, disagreeable, envy, intimidating, intimidation, mediocre, mediocrity, misunderstood, odd, original, originality, outcast, peculiar, strange, unusual

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#7

“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.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: brilliance, determination, faith, first-impression, fool, foolish, genius, geniuses, glance, illusion, mistaken, mistaken-identity, misunderstood, originality, perseverance, risk, taking-risks, wheels

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#8

“When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: copying, copyright, copyright-infringement, creativity, credit, envy, helping-others, honesty, originality, plagiarism, pleasure, selfishness, skill, support, talent, wit

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#9

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: books, originality, unique

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#10

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: identity, originality

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#11

“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: originality

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#12

“Only those with no memory insist on their originality.”
― Coco Chanel

tags: memory, originality

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#13

“Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had."

[Commencement Speech; Mount Holyoke College, May 23, 1999]”
― Anna Quindlen

tags: creative-process, creativity, originality, point-of-view, uniqueness, writing

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#14

“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.”
― Martin Heidegger

tags: nietzche, originality

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#15

“What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

tags: inspirational, motivational, originality

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#16

“It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.”
― Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

tags: courage, originality

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#17

“Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.”
― Ryan Lilly

tags: authentic, business-advice, business-quote, business-quotes, consumer, consumption, creation, creative, creativity, lifting, manufacture, mediocre, mediocre-minds, mediocre-people, mediocrity, motivation, motivational, original, originality, replicate, replication, success, treadmill, weight-training, weightlifting, weights

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#18

“It's not where you take things from — it's where you take them to.”
― Jean-Luc Godard

tags: godard

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#19

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

tags: inspirational, writing

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#20

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#21

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

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#22

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

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#23

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

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#24

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

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#25

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading, writing

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#26

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: writing

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#27

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#28

“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

tags: art, arts-and-humanities, creative-process, writing

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#29

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
― Jack London

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#30

“I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.”
― Robert E. Howard

tags: badass

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