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“I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters.” quote by Paul Fry — Download Open image

“I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters.”

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Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks of romanticism…

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I'm a fan or naysayer like everyone else, not an authority of any kind.

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Although I don't disagree that utterances express desires and try to make complexities precise, I actually don't think at all that any of our…

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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You don't get lucky. You create lucky.

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“I believe in magic. As a writer, I create them on blank paper.”

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Creativity is like chasing chickens.

Christoph Niemann

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