Plagiarism Quotes
76 quotes by 65 authors
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Originality is undetected plagiarism.
— William Ralph Inge
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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…
— Bruce Schneier
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Genius Borrows nobly.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
— John Dryden
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The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
— Lionel Trilling
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The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.
— Marcel Proust
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It's not plagiarism in the digital age -- it's repurposing.
— Kenneth Goldsmith
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The kernel, the soul—let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances—is plagiarism,
— Jonathan Lethem
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Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.
— Pedro Almodovar
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Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.
— Nora Roberts
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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…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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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,…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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Self-plagiarism is style.
— Alfred Hitchcock
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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…
— Nancy Banks-Smith
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Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.
— Robert K. Merton
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Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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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…
— Samuel Johnson
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All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.
— Charles Spurgeon
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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…
— Kathy Acker
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The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.
— T.D. Jakes
Who Wrote These Plagiarism Quotes
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