1.
Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.
Raymond Radiguet
3.
Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.
Jean Guitton
4.
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
Charles Baudelaire
5.
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W. H. Auden
6.
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
Jean Cocteau
8.
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Thomas Carlyle
9.
It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.
Wallace Stevens