#plagiarism

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#could #exactly #falling #falling in love #good

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism. ↗

— Gilbert Gottfried

#i #i think #influence #nice #plagiarism

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. ↗

— Dean Inge

#plagiarism #undetected

If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism. If you steal from two, it's research. ↗

— John Burke

#plagiarism #research #steal #two #you

All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#guilt #plagiarism #teacher

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

#embraces #erases #expressions #false #his

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#biggest #biggest thing #hollywood #plagiarism #thing

Originality is undetected plagiarism. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#plagiarism #undetected

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#down #erudition #moderns #plagiarism #steal

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