"The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals."
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"Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?"
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"If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are."
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"Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy"
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"Everything in art is but a copy of nature."
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"Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition."
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"Six years ago, I looked at a picture of the world's greatest newspaper men. I felt like a kid in front of a candy store. Well, tonight, six years later, I got my candy - all of it. Welcome, gentlemen, to the Inquirer! Make up an extra copy of that picture and send it to the Chronicle"
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"Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it."
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"The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done."
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