But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different...
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Pierre Boulle
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...
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Jim Jarmusch
Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.
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Albert Pinkham Ryder
Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
More Quotes By Marcus Tullius Cicero
While there's life, there's hope.
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
