Plagiarism quotes
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Self-plagiarism is style.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?
-- Benjamin West -
All artists are protected by copyright... and we should be the first to respect copyright.
-- Billy Cannon -
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No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.
-- Charles Kingsley -
All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.
-- Charlotte Saunders Cushman -
The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.
-- Ihab Hassan -
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Borrowed garments never keep one warm.
-- James Russell Lowell -
A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.
-- Karl Kraus -
You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more and more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was text because it's text that create identity. That's how I got interested in plagiarism.
-- Kathy Acker -
It's not plagiarism in the digital age -- it's repurposing.
-- Kenneth Goldsmith -
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Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.
-- Margaret Cavendish -
The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.
-- Mary McCarthy -
Art is either revolution or plagiarism
-- Paul Gauguin -
Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.
-- Pedro Almodovar -
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Plagiarism is basic to all culture
-- Pete Seeger -
Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
-- Robert Genn -
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.
-- T. D. Jakes -
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Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.
-- Walter Moers -
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
-- William Ralph Inge -
Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
-- William Ralph Inge -
Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.
-- John McPhee -
