#original

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#bird #eden #ever #fall #first

Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared with the reader. So that would mean that literature is stories that put themselves at the disposal of readers who want to heal themselves. Their healing power lies in their honesty, the freshness of their vision, the new and unexpected things they show, the increase in power and responsibility they give the reader. ↗

— Geoff Ryman

#freedom #freshness #healing #honesty #literature

Anymore, no one's mind is their own. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#life #modernity #originality #life

When you think of somebody all the time it means one of two things - either you hate their guts or you like them a lot. ↗

— Phillip Gwynne

#australia #love #nukkin-ya #young-adult #love

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#originality #unique #thought

All novels are sequels; influence is bliss. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#cliche #novels #originality #writing #influence

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#copies #few #gallery #many #originals

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#originality

The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#new-ideas #open-mindedness #originality

He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely. ↗

— Adam Young

#sea #valentine #wordplay #originality