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 Mason Cooley
Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Rereading, we find a new book
Was there little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?
