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  • About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

    Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”
  • Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

    James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.69
  • There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the standards and taste of his choices in matters of high-level plagiarism.

    Men   Choices   Details  
    "Prisoner of Denver", Vanity Fair, June 2004.
  • Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

    Guy Debord (2012). “Society Of The Spectacle”, p.98, Bread and Circuses Publishing
  • Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.

    Art   Car   Gardening  
  • As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may wore properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame.

    Laurence Sterne (1783). “The Works of Laurence Sterne”, p.101
  • I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and my intellectual property rights stolen, but my work has been misrepresented.

    Art   Writing   Rights  
  • Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em.

    Dream   Winning   Ems  
    Bryan Waller Procter (1820). “A Sicilian Story ; with Diego de Montilla and Other Poems”, p.135
  • I think the line between "inspiration" and "plagiarism" is often so thin, that you risk falling into the latter one.

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  • All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

  • All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

  • Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.

  • For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that-either now or in the uncertain future-patterns we leave behind will be brought back to implicate us, by whatever authority has now become focused upon our once-private and innocent acts. We lose our individuality, because everything we do is observable and recordable.

  • Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.

  • Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

  • Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

    "The Leo Tapes". Interview with Mark Harris, www.gq.com. October 8, 2011.
  • The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.

  • All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.

    Art   Dull   Speech  
    Jacob M. Braude (1975). “Braude's Handbook of Stories for Toastmasters and Speakers”, Prentice Hall
  • It's not plagiarism in the digital age -- it's repurposing.

  • Plagiarism is basic to all culture

  • The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

  • It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage, and, also, scraps of letters which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. In fact, Mr. Fitzgerald (I believe that is how he spells his name) seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

    Believe   Home   Names  
    Zelda Fitzgerald (1992). “The Collected Writings”, New York : Collier Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International
  • Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature.

    Clever   Artist   People  
  • He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

    Victory   Would Be   Poet  
    'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668) on Ben Jonson
  • I don't agree with the copyright laws and I don't have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people as long as they're not doing it to make a profit off my labor. You share things with people and I think information, and art, and ideas should be shared.

    "Moore: Pirate my film, no problem" by Iain S. Bruce, Sunday Herald, July 04, 2004.
  • The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism.

    Book   Would Be   Culture  
  • In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

  • Genius Borrows nobly.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.154
  • To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

    Funny   Humorous   Ideas  
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