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Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

“The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.”

Models Overcoming Impulse Resentment Inherent Imitation Inferiority Imitator

Book:The Ordeal of Change

Source: The Ordeal of Change

“The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus, as pre-eminent specimens of logic, taste, and that sententious brevity which, using not a word to spare, leaves not a moment for inattention to the hearer. Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.”

Should Firsts Art Moments Left Lines Modern Taste Speech Models Logic Importance Vices Reasoning Imitation Spares Finest Antiquity Brevity Oratory Inattention Amplification

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.”

Body Mother Existence Letters Imitation Parasites

Book:Assorted Prose

Source: Assorted Prose

“Imitation is criticism.”

Criticism Artistic Imitation

Book:Complete writings: with variant readings

Source: Complete writings: with variant readings

“Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.”

Has Beens Made Seems Poet Filled University Careful Made It Novelists Imitation Discretion Conducting Eliot Demure

Book:Sex, Death, and Money

Source: Sex, Death, and Money

“When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.”

Knowing Imitation Mischief

Author:Publilius Syrus

“Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.”

Grace Imitation Facility

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble.”

Ifs Written Trouble Modern Willing Habit Spread Clarity Imitation Avoided Bad Habits Modern English

Book:A Collection of Essays

Source: A Collection of Essays

“We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.”

Half Imitation

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must produce approbation and a desire of imitation, as avenues may be found for truth to the knowledge of nations.”

May Reason Feelings Government Desire Found Nations Common Produce Universal Common Sense Imitation Avenues Systems Of Government

Author:James Madison

“Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour is the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.”

People Humans Kind Real Dream Beautiful Turns Emotion Environment Effects Fashion Deeper Imitation Vessel Beautiful Women Glamour Trans Auras

Author:Arthur Miller

“The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.”

Improvement Imitation Cubes Imitation Of Life

Author:Erno Rubik

“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.”

Source: Anatomy of Criticism

“The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.”

Hero Worship Remains Patterns Contemporary Suspects Heroism Imitation Hero Worship Undefined

Author:Irwin Edman

“I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation. In nature everything is always right: the structure is right, the proportions are good, the colours fit the forms. If you imitate that in painting, it becomes false.”

Ifs Believe Art Reality Wanted Form I Believe Painting Fit Structure Colour Proportion Imitation Corresponding

Book:Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.”

Mean Sound Imitation

Book:Muthologos: the collected lectures & interviews

Source: Muthologos: the collected lectures & interviews

“The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.”

Hero Imitation Retreat

Book:Muthologos: the collected lectures & interviews

Source: Muthologos: the collected lectures & interviews

“Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.”

Knows Men Has Beens Might Know How Seeing Generations Idiot Imitation Copying Imitating Grasshoppers

Author:Augusto Roa Bastos

“Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.”

Humor Actors Comedian Imitation

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.”

America Courses Individual Attention Draws Tendencies Suspicion Imitation

Author:Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

“When I was 13, listening to Choice FM, I would listen to a lot of R&B from America, and whenever a British person tried to do it, it didn't really work, they just sounded like they were trying to copy that whole style. Now the music sounds British, something real rather than an imitation.”

Trying Persons Real Whole America Choices Sound Style Listening British Copies Imitation Something Real

Author:Katy B

“Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.”

Eye Hills Classic Imitation Flattery

Author:Michael Berryman

“Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister.”

Different School Used Sound Type Ministers Rough Imitation Grammar Cabinets Grammar School

Author:Steve Coogan

“This imitation Elvis may not be the king, but baby I'm the next best thing.”

May Next Baby Kings Best Things Imitation

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“If we think we are usually good, then God is usually irrelevant... Such thinking ignores the depths of sin in my own heart, and, in essence, it elevates me so that I am just a mildly flawed imitation of God rather than someone completely dependent on Him.”

Ifs Thinking Heart My Own Sin Essence Depth Dependent Righteousness Imitation Irrelevant Flawed Self Righteous Self Righteousness

Author:Edward T Welch

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