Before Quote by Gene Fowler Download Open image “If they haven't heard it before it's original.” — Gene Fowler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Before Creativity Heard Original
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. — James Stephens Copy Share Image
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An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to. — Gene Fowler Copy Share Image
Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth. — Gene Fowler Copy Share Image
Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in school? Where else can the… — Gene Fowler Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running. — Gene Fowler Copy Share Image
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind. — Gene Fowler Copy Share Image
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief. — Gene Fowler Copy Share Image
Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco — Gene Fowler Copy Share Image
Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts. — Gene Fowler Copy Share Image
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