41 quotes found
“No one want to be an imitation of another”
“There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.”
“An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.”
“Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.”
“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”
“Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.”
“Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.”
“Parrots mimic their owners. Their owners consider that a sign of intelligence.”
“Imitation is human intelligence in its most dynamic aspect.”
“Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less an individual (a sub...”
“Imitation cannot go above its model.”
“The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves hims...”
“Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.”
“In the haste to imitate an idol, in the race to become someone else, we forget the most important lesson.How to be ourselves.”
“In Paris, Juliens position with regard to Madame de Renal would very soon have been simplified; but in Paris love is the child of the novels. The young tutor and his timid mistress would have found...”
“Most people go on living their everyday life: frightened half indifferent they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that has been performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the w...”
“We are in truth more than a half of what we are by imitation.”
“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.”
“There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.”
“Every man is a borrower and a mimic life is theatrical and literature a quotation.”
