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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Topic
Discovery Originality Creativity
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Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
Language
English
Time
1962 1960s 20th century
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Citation

Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert. Quoted in The Scientist Speculates: An Anthology of Partly-Baked Ideas, written by Irving John Good. Heinemann, 1962, ch. 1, sect. 6.

Another quote of the following type Advice

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Topic
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Source
Oldtown Folks
Medium
Novel
Statement Type
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Language
English
Time
1869 1860s 19th century
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Original Citation

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Oldtown Folks. Boston: Fields, Osgood, and Co., 1869, ch. 39.

Current Citation

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. "Oldtown Folks." Harriet Beecher Stowe: Three Novels: Uncle Tom's Cabin; The Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks. Library of America, 1982, ch. 39.