Quote by Herman Melville
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. – Herman Melville

Other quotes by Herman Melville

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. – Herman Melville

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The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. – Herman Melville

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Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. – Herman Melville

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Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world. – Malcolm Mclaren

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Nothing is said which has not been said before. – Terence

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Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an authors phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. – Guy Debord

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