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“Self-plagiarism is style.”

Self Inspiring Style Filmmaker Movie Plagiarism

Book:Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2: Selected Writings and Interviews

Source: Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2: Selected Writings and Interviews

“Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?”

Ideas Courses Answers Tradition Mere Architecture Designer Architect Plagiarism

Author:Nancy Banks-Smith

“Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.”

Years Ideas Born Hundred Originals Stealing Publish Plagiarism Original Ideas

Author:Robert K. Merton

“Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history. Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism.”

Should Wells Enough Able Knowing Design Roots Designer Graphic Graphic Design Plagiarism Reinvention Graphic Designer

Author:Steven Heller

“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.”

Writing Ideas Use Progress Expression Embrace Improvement Phrases Erase Plagiarism Right Ideas Meanings Of Words

Book:Society Of The Spectacle

Source: Society Of The Spectacle

“Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.”

May Children Stealing Ems Stolen Gypsy Plagiarism

Book:The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch

Source: The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch

“Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.”

Believe Home Seems Literature Names I Believe Spells Plagiarism

Author:Zelda Fitzgerald

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

Thinking Inspirational Music Too Much Composer Interfere Plagiarism Funny Music Classical Musicians

Author:Howard Dietz

“Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.”

Merit Preservation Plagiarism

Book:Curiosities of literature

Source: Curiosities of literature

“As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The adoption of a noble sentiment, or the insertion of a borrowed ornament, may sometimes display so much judgment as will almost compensate for invention; and an inferior genius may, without any imputation of servility, pursue the paths of the ancients, provided he declines to tread in their footsteps.”

Source: The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous

“Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.”

Hollywood Plagiarism

Author:Clint Eastwood

“For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.”

Ifs Kind Borrowing Plagiarism Borrowers Good Authors

Author:John Milton

“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

“All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.”

Religion Christianity Dull Originality Preaching Plagiarism

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”

“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.”

Given Interesting Identity Plagiarism

Book:Hannibal Lecter, my father

Source: Hannibal Lecter, my father

“The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.”

Lows Grades Contentment Popularity Plagiarism

Author:T. D. Jakes

“I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence.”

May Different Three Offers Passages Imitation Quotations Coincidence Three Things Familiarity Plagiarism Sameness

Author:James Boswell

“We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.”

Thinking Use Taught Plagiarism

Book:All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne

Source: All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne

“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 Seems Would Be Culture Compare Glorious Mutual Quotations Jungle Plagiarism Understatement

Author:James Gleick

“Most authors steal their works, or buy.”

Writing Art Stealing Plagiarism

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]

“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.”

Writing Speak Subjects Posts Temper Plagiarism Quoting Depersonalization

Book:The Right Promethean Fire: Imagination, Science, and Cultural Change

Source: The Right Promethean Fire: Imagination, Science, and Cultural Change

“Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.”

Bigs Causes Racism Damage Lasting Accusation Plagiarism

Author:Michel Houellebecq