At 1 hour 17 minutes Christopher Hitchens explains that plagiarism and using other peoples words is "inevitable".
Complimentary analysis can be read in an article entitled 'Makers and Takers: Art and the Appropriation of Ideas'.
Also of important note is the piece written by Christopher Hitchens in his book 'Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere' where he wrote a chapter entitled, 'In Defence of Plagiarism'.
And in George Orwell's essay on Charles Dickens entitled simply,'Charles Dickens' Orwell said:
"Dickens is one of those writers who are well worth stealing."
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