“I suppose that now if I ever wrote a play about myself I'd be sued for plagiarism”
Dorothy Parker
“To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic”
Pablo Picasso
“Originality is undetected plagiarism.”
W. R. Inge
“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
“Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.”
Wilson Mizner
“Self-plagiarism is style.”
Alfred Hitchcock
“The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.”
