What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it stares... us in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Society in general do not like originality, especially in woman, as it looks like defying man's authority for a woman to prefer he...r own methods to accepting those laid down for the majority.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The popular colleges of the United States are turning out more educated people with less originality and fewer geniuses than any o...ther country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality an...d spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »