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Thu 13 Jun 2013

J’accuse! Émile Zola, Anatole France, what does it matter?

Posted by PJ under plagiarism, quote of the day, writing
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“When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it and copy it. Give references? Why should you? Either your readers know where you have taken the passage and the precaution is needless, or they do not know and you humiliate them.”

—Anatole France, Anatole France Himself: A Boswellian Record by His Secretary, Jean-Jacques Brousson, tr. John Pollock

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Wed 21 Mar 2012

Hitch

Posted by PJ under plagiarism, quote of the day, style
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Random quote of the day:

 

“Self-plagiarism is style.”

—Alfred Hitchcock, The Observer, August 8, 1976

 

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Fri 10 Feb 2012

Borrowing

Posted by PJ under literature, plagiarism, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

 

“Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author’s soul.  If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.”

—Robert Benchley, quoted in Bon Bons, Bourbon and Bon Mots: Stories from the Algonquin Round Table by Franklin Pierce Adams, Robert Benchley, and Heywood Broun

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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