Imitation Quotes
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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.
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I let his rose wither in a vase on my desk, a vase painfully empty of flowers since the long-ago time when, on my birthday, Mario would give me a cattleya, in imitation of Swann. In the evening the flower was already black and bent on its stem. I threw it in the trash.
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The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.
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Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
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Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.
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Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
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For me, it's always very beautiful that you can do something today in the 21st century which is not an imitation but which has a connection to art which is 4,000 years old.
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If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.
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A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.
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Rudeness is a weak person's imitation of strength.
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I've been doing a pale imitation of Bill Murray for most of my career.
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Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals.
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When I look at the fields, all I can see is how fake they are, how poor an imitation they are of the pictures of Sol-Earth fields. And that's why I'll never be as good an Eldest as he is. Because I like a little chaos.
