"If you simply try to tell the..." - Quote by C S Lewis
If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.
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“Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.”
“Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.”
“I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.”