Thievery

The people, fed up with the politicians' lies, thievery and deceit, kicked 'em into a bottomless pit. The pit became almost full.

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work, and theft, will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable, originality is non-existent. And don't bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: "It's not where you take things from—it's where you take them to."

This instance of thievery will not be overlooked.

One thief may well have the power to achieve a certain amount of success in fulfilling his desires to possess the property of another. But thievery being what it is, it feeds that desire in an intemperate way, and so the desire grows and grows.

Injurious Time now, with a robber's haste, / Crams his rich thievery up, he knows not how;