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Imitations Quotes (page 9)

F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate."
People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Yogi Berra quote: "If you can't imitate him, don't copy him."
If you can't imitate him, don't copy him. Yogi Berra
Eric Hoffer quote: "Rudeness is the weak mans imitation of strength."
Rudeness is the weak mans imitation of strength. Eric Hoffer
What is he to learn? To imitate? Or to avoid? When your friends the bees worry themselves about their sovereign, and become perfectly distracted touching the slightest monarchical movement, are we men to learn the greatness of Tuft-hunting, or the littleness of the Court Circular? I am not clear, Mr. Boffin, but that the hive may be satirical.'At all events, they work,' said Mr. Boffin. Ye-es,' returned Eugene, disparagingly, 'they work; but don't you think they overdo it? Charles Dickens
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Influential books are often a disappointment, if they're properly influential, because influence cannot guarantee the quality of the imitators, and your appetite for the original has been partially sated by its poor copies. Nick Hornby
Fran Lebowitz quote: "Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject..."
Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it. Fran Lebowitz
...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself. Tracy Kidder
The things one feels are different about oneself are the things that are rare, that give each person their value - and these are the things they try to repress. The imitate and make out they love life! Andre Gide
My dear young friends, I want to invite you to "dare to love". Do not desire anything less for your life than a love that is strong and beautiful and that is capable of making the whole of your existence a joyful undertaking of giving yourselves as a gift to God and your brothers and sisters, in imitation of the One who vanquished hatred and death for ever through love (cf. Rev 5:13).Love is the only force capable of changing the heart of the human person and of all humanity, by making... Joseph Ratzinger
The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather, he is ethically depraved, a criminal willing radical evil. And since it is radical evil that is manifest here, evil per se, forming the absolute negative pole of every value-system, kitsch will always be evil, not just kitsch in art, but kitsch in every value-system that is not an imitation system. Hermann Broch
A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It “consents,” so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree Thomas Merton
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the actions of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage. William Shakespeare
Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends. Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations. Joyce Cary
Lionel Trilling quote: "Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. Lionel Trilling

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