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Mike Esteves
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"...in any cultural field it is not possible to be original except on a basis of tradition. Conversely, no one in the line of cultural contributors repeats except as a deliberate quotation, and the unforgivable sin in the cultural field is plagiarism."
— Jul 26, 2026 07:17PM
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Mike Esteves
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"I am now ready to go straight to the statement of my thesis. It seems I am afraid to get there, as if I fear that once the thesis is stated the purpose of my communication is at an end, because it is so very simple."
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— Jul 26, 2026 06:22PM
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Mike Esteves
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"Moments when the original poet in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps forgotten by most people; or else they are guarded in some secret place of memory because they were too much like visitations of the gods to be mixed with everyday thinking' (Milner, 1957)."
— Jul 23, 2026 06:45PM