"If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research."

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Source : Quoted in Bennett Cerf, Try and Stop Me: A Collection of Anecdotes and Stories, Mostly Humorous (1944). Although this is usually credited to Mizner, the Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 1941, quotes Bob Oliver: "If you steal from one man, it's plagiarism. If you steal from several, it's research."

Wilson Mizner

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“I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.”
“Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.”

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“Poetry is telling something to someone.”
“The more improbable the message, the less "compressible" it is, and the more bandwidth it requires. This is Shannon's point: the essence is its improbability.”

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“Men should strive to think much and know little.”
“Since it was there, Larkin got another bowl, spooned up stew for himself. â€œHe fights with us. Weâ€™re an army.â€ â€œAn army? Talk about delusions of grandeur. What are you?â€ she asked Glenna. â€œWitch.â€ â€œSo, weâ€™ve got a witch, a sorcerer, a couple of refugees from Geall and a vampire. Some army.”
“I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy.”
“What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn't change what I decide to do. I don't choose projects so people don't see me as one thing or another. I choose projects that excite me. I think the problem is that people refuse to understand what drag is outside of their own belief system.”

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