“Self-plagiarism is style.”
Defending his repetition of filming techniques, in The Observer [London], (8 Aug. 1976).
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Tom Lehrer (1928) American singer-songwriter and mathematician
"Lobachevsky"
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“Art is either revolution or plagiarism”
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Variant: Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
“The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
“Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.”
Walter Moers book The City of Dreaming Books
Source: The City of Dreaming Books
“To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
“When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.”
Wilson Mizner (1876–1933) American writer
Quoted in Alva Johnston's The Legendary Mizners (1953, Farrar Straus and Young, New York, chapter 4, p 66) and Bartlett's, 1992, p. 631.
Also quoted as If you copy from one author, it's plagiarism. If you copy from two, it's research by Stuart B. McIver in Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags.
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Jorge Luis Borges book A Universal History of Infamy
A Universal History of Iniquity, preface to the 1954 edition; tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
Context: I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. [... ] The baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources.
