"Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done."

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Source : Stephen Dunn (2001). “Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry”, p.2, BOA Editions, Ltd.

Stephen Dunn

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“I still don't have all the answers. I'm more interested in what I can do next than what I did last.”
“People would always say to me, "Why are you wearing such large frames?" And I would say, "The bigger to see you."”
“Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them.”

Source : "Secrets and lives" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2003.
“And I laughed so hard I think I died”
“There's always the syndrome of the parent-child relationship: when someone has known you since you were very young, it doesn't matter how much more independent, how much older or more mature you get - there is still that element, the dynamic of the relationship that is very hard to successfully transform, and that has nothing to do with the music-making, in the end.”

Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.
“Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.”

Source : Richard Chenevix Trench (1873). “A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from Their Present”, p.49
“I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him.”
“Onlookers frequently confuse edge with style...Edge means generating excess returns because of mispricing. Style suggests being in the right place at the right time. Sometimes edge and style overlap, sometimes they don't.”

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