There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.
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G.k. Chesterton
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
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Anonymous
Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.
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Ngaio Marsh
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
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T.S. Eliot
Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
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