“Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.”— Marva Collins, somber-minds.tumblr.com
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”— Chuck Palahniuk, goodreads.com
“I find this less scandalous than beautiful: a kind of palimpsestic plagiarism that moves through bodies and time, a collective song with no single origin, or whose origin has been erased— the way a star, from our earthly perspective, is often survived by its own light.”— Ben Lerner,
“We know that a text does not consist of a line of words, releasing a single 'theological' meaning (the 'message' of the Author-God), but is a space of many dimensions, in which are wedded and contested various kinds of writing, no one of which is original: the text is a tissue of citations, resultin…”— Roland Barthes, tbook.constantvzw.org