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“What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me.”

Whole Use Moving Four Happened Hundred Stones Paid Twenties Originals Dollars Drawing Treasure Agents Damn Convince Sixty Fifteen Rolling Rolling Stones Rue

Author:Ralph Steadman

“I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts.”

Moral Virtue Ought Battle Intellectual Hundred Originals Excellence Valuable Superiors Esteem Originality Conqueror Original Thought Moral Excellence

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

“Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies? That meddling ape imitation, as soon as we come to years of indiscretion, (so let me speak,) snatches the pen, and blots out nature's mark of separation, cancels her kind intention, destroys all mental individuality. The lettered world no longer consists of singulars: it is a medley, a mass; and a hundred books, at bottom, are but one.”

Source: The complete works, poetry and prose, of ... Edward Young. Revised [by J. Nichols]. To which is prefixed, a life of the author, by J. Doran

“Mr. Hillaire Belloc has pointed out that science has changed greatly, and for the worse, since it became popular. Some hundred years ago, or more, only very unusual, highly original spirits were attracted to science at all; scientific work was therefore carried out by men of exceptional intelligence. Now, scientists are turned out by mass production in our universities.”

Men Years Science Spirit Change Changed Mass Hundred Years Ago Scientist Originals University Productions Unusual Exceptional Mass Production

Author:Anthony Standen

“America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they were the original boat people.”

People Years Firsts Stories America Four Changed Hundred Years Ago Originals Boat Immigrants Turkeys Pilgrim

Author:Andrew Lam

“There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.”

Writing Two Book Literature Differences Results Six Pages Hundred Originals Eight Editing Rewriting

Book:Elie Wiesel: Conversations

Source: Elie Wiesel: Conversations

“What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?”

Bigs House Generations Creation Periods Truth Is Hundred Originals Burning Copies Revival Mock Tudors Burning Down

Author:Chuck Palahniuk