Against caring too much about originality in literature and art

Against caring too much about originality in literature and art 2015-03-08T13:18:46-06:00

 

Oxford in the 1890s
High Street in Oxford in the 1890s, shortly before C. S. Lewis was born.  He would spend much of his life there.
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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.”

C. S. Lewis

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