Steal old stuff.

Austin Kleon

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Topic

Borrowing and creativity Creativity Inspiration

Author

Austin Kleon

Medium

Blog post

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

2017 2010s 21st century

Occupation

Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Kleon, Austin. "More Advice for the Recent Graduate." 25 May 2017, austinkleon.com/2017/05/25/more-advice-for-the-recent-graduate/.

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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

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Time
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Thoreau, Henry David. "Where I Lived, And What I Lived For." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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