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A work does not have to be unlike everything before it to be worth making; what makes it new is that this particular person made it.

Drawn from what Nick Cave and Ted Chiang said

A private bookmark. Not a position, and never counted.

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  1. Nick Cave There may be nothing new under the sun, but it is our distinctiveness that matters, our specialness. theredhandfiles.com

    Australian songwriter and writer

    There may be nothing new under the sun, but it is our distinctiveness that matters, our specialness.
  2. Ted Chiang What you create doesn’t have to be utterly unlike every prior piece of art in human history to be valuable; the fact that you’re the one who is saying it, the fact that it derives from your unique life experience and arrives at a particular moment in the life of whoever is seeing your work, is what makes it new. newyorker.com

    American science-fiction writer

    What you create doesn’t have to be utterly unlike every prior piece of art in human history to be valuable; the fact that you’re the one who is saying it, the fact that it derives from your unique life experience and arrives at a particular moment in the life of whoever is seeing your work, is what makes it new.

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