An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1980) 15th edtionFrancois-Rene de Chateaubriand
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No true reader who has read as much as a single story by Raphael Aloysius Lafferty needs to be told that he is our most original writer. ... Just about everything Lafferty writes is fun, is witty, is entertaining and playful. But it is not easy, for it is a mingling of allegory with myth, and of both with something more ... In fact, he may not be just ours, but the most original writer in the history of literature.
R. A. Lafferty
It is not that gambling imitates economic life, but that economic life is largely modeled after gambling.That was the idea of the original thinker John Law, made infamous with his bankruptcy; Aaron Brown, another original thinker, revives it and takes it further.
Aaron C. Brown
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.
William Wordsworth
[He's] the most original, and probably most important, writer on Magick since Aleister Crowley.
Peter J. Carroll
Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
Sallustius (or Sallust)
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