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«It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
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Originality
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imitation, imitations, originality
«Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.»
«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.»
Author: Northrop Frye
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«Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.»
Author: Aesop
(Author, Fabulist)
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applaud, applauding, applauds, hiss, hissed, hisses, imitation, imitations, real thing, The Real Thing
«By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.»
Author: Confucius
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Wisdom
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«Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.»
Author: Dr. Joyce Brothers
(Author, Columnist, Psychologist)
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flatteries, flattery, imitation, imitations, sincerest
«I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.»
Author: Mae West
(Actress)
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Example
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imitation, imitations, lady, model, modeled, Model I, Model T, real thing, The Real Thing
«In literature imitations do not imitate»
«All art is but imitation of nature.»
«Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
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borrowed, borrows, imitation, imitations, judicious, original, originality, originals, writers
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