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Cassandra Clare
Issues with Quotes
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Attributing quotes which are paraphrased from other sources
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If someone else doesn't get to it before me, I can merge all of them into the bible version in a day or two.
rivka wrote: "The argument can be made for some paraphrased quotes, but I think not so much for this one. And it seems to have appeared in more than one of the author's books? https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/se..."Thanks Rivka. I think it's even stretching the term "paraphrased" because it is literally one word that she has changed.
I'm curious as to whether this quote is properly attributed or not - although it is (I presume), part of her book, it is lifted pretty directly from the Bible, Ruth 1:16-17
"And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me." (King James Version)