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Stealing Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.
- Good poets borrow, great poets steal
- A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.
- Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.
- Talent imitates, but genius steals.
- Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
- One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature…
- Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
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- Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him. — Kevin Bacon
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- We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's. — Henry Ward Beecher
- About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. — Josh Billings
- The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal. — Ritchie Blackmore
- Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old. — Erma Bombeck
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- The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal. — Jimmy Breslin
- Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. — Howard Aiken
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