“Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness.” IfsPersonsExistenceConsciousnessNovelSuccessfulTypeAreasOriginalsReports Book:The Golden Notebook Source: The Golden Notebook
“Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.” MindHumansStillsTwoGivenExistenceGreaterDiversityMurderOriginalsCopiesHuman MindPermitPrimitiveImitation Author:Madame de Stael
“For someone who is starting out on developing their critical skills, just being aware of its existence is great: it can make the difference between trying to write a story around a cliche or an original idea, and better still, studying it can eventually clue you in on how to breathe new life into tired tropes.” WritingTryingStillsIdeasStoriesDifferencesExistenceStudySkillsOriginalsTiredStartingCriticalBreatheDevelopingJust BeingNew LifeClueClicheStarting OutOriginal IdeasTropes Author:Charles Stross
“Creativity can be defined as an original act of imagination that brings something into existence. It is a desire and innate drive to make new connections between things, to give form, and to transform.” GivingFormDesireImaginationExistenceCreativityConnectionsOriginalsDefinedInnate Author:Shaun McNiff
“We believe the substance we have extracted from pitchblende contains a metal not yet observed, related to bismuth by its analytical properties. If the existence of this new metal is confirmed we propose to call it polonium, from the name of the original country of one of us.” IfsBelieveCountryNamesExistenceOriginalsPropertySubstanceRelatedMetalsPropose Author:Marie Curie
“Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled.” IdeasSometimesArtistUnderstandingExistenceCuttingOriginalsFilledWaveIronyManipulationCrucialViewersParadoxicalGlitches Author:Jerry Saltz
“Real danger is nothing more than just living. Of course, living is merely the chaos of existence, but more than that it's a crazy mixed-up business of dismantling existence instant by instant to the point where the original chaos is restored, and taking strength from the uncertainty and the fear that chaos brings to re-create existence instant by instant. You won't find another job as dangerous as that. There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.” RealJobsCoursesExistenceCrazyDangerousDangerOriginalsChaosUncertaintyInstant Author:Yukio Mishima
“Mind dissolves only when you don't choose. And when there is no mind, you are for the first time in your crystal clarity, for the first time in your original freshness. For the first time your real face is encountered. Mind is not there - the divider. Now existence appears as one. Mind has dropped; the barrier between you and existence is no more. Now you can look at existence with no mind. This is how a sage is born. With the mind - the world. With no mind - freedom, MOKSHA, KAIVALYA, NIRVANA. Cessation of the mind is cessation of the world.” WorldMindFirstsLooksRealFacesBornExistenceFirst TimeOriginalsClarityBarriersSageCrystalsFreshnessMokshaMind Freedom Author:Rajneesh