Making something great is the opposite of resembling what is already recognised as great.

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• The recipe for great work is very exacting taste plus the ability to gratify it; it is easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty. PGPaul Graham1 Feb 2002
• Because great writers already exist, a writer is driven past what has been done, to where no one can help EHErnest Hemingway10 Dec 1954
• Great work is usually done far younger than its fame suggests: people were grey-haired when they became famous, not when they did the work. PCPatrick Collisonby 5 Jul 2018
• Songs come out of suffering, and a system that has endured nothing has nothing to make one from. NCNick Cave16 Jan 2023
• 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. TCTed Chiang31 Aug 2024

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