Originality is the art of concealing your source.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting at the proper moment what we know.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Even in literature and art no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will nine times out of ten become original without ever having noticed it.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought and its first reaction is one of anger.