Unoriginal Quotes

“If you call yourself an "authoress" on your Facebook profile, you suck at life. You are stupid and your children are ugly. It doesn't matter if you're just trying to be cute and original. You're not. You are about as original as all those other witless twits "writing" the one millionth shitty Fifty Shades clone. Or maybe you're trying to show your 2000 fake Facebook "friends" that you are an empowered feminist who will not stand for sexist terminology. But you're not showing people that you are fighting the good fight, you're showing people that you are a sheep, who's trying just a little too hard to ride the current wave of idiotic political correctness. The word "author" is no more gender-discrimination than the word "person." Do you call yourself a personess? No, of course not, because then you might as well wear a sign around your neck that says, "Hello, I'm a retard.”
― Oliver Markus

“An envious heart can't be original.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“There's lower wisdom in comment.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Doubt isn't original.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Truth is unoriginal.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Good-bye,' I said to them, but they didn't seem to hear me, and why would they have wanted to? Why would they have wanted to do with the world outside of each other? Outside each other, they were mean little human beings like the rest of us, the kind of people you both loathed and pitied. Separately, they were characters, and not in a good way. But together they were something to wonder at and maybe even envy. I had this unoriginal thought as I walked out the door and toward my van: love changes us, makes us into people whom others then want to love. That's why, to those of us without it, love is the voice asking, What else? What else? And to those of us who have had love and lost it or thrown it away, then love is the voice that leads us back to love, to see if it might still be ours or if we've lost it, love is also the thing that makes us speak in aphorisms about love, which is why we try to get love back, so we can stop speaking that way. Aphoristically, that is.”
― Brock Clarke, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England

“Everything seems just alike in these days.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End