“Why did you come if not to murder my king?"
"I came to steal his magus."
"You can't," said the magus in question.
"I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him, "even with one hand.”
Source: The Queen of Attolia
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“Did you hotwire this car?" I then rephrased my question. "Did you STEAL this car?”
Source: Last Sacrifice
“Steal a little and they throw you in jail; steal a lot and they make you king.”
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Sweetheart Like You
“Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king.”
Source: Rigante series, Stormrider, Ch. 5
“When there's anything to steal, I steal”
Quoted in: Thought. Vol. 17 (1965). p. 154.
The magazine further commented:
Picasso's remark — "When there's anything to steal, I steal" — was fair warning to the competition. In modern art he has been, for years, the cock-of- the-walk, (The broody hens, one supposes, are also part of that picture.) But the book is valuable, primarily, for Picasso's observations about his own work and the work of others.
1960s
Elliot in the Morning, about plagiarism controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Timbaland_plagiarism_controversy, 2007-02-02
Source: 84, Charing Cross Road
Lyrics, All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000), Walk On