All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original. (Samuel R. Delany)

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

Samuel R. Delany

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