"I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation"
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"Imagine you're copying a very long document, and occasionally you'll put an A where there should be a C. And that mistake has been translated down through the generations, and more mistakes have accumulated. So the longer the lineage has been in existence, the more mistakes the sequence is going to have."
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"A copying artist should get permission or pay the original artist a fee."
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"I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed!"
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