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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art…
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We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
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A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak…
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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation…
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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
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Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time…
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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular…
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Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and…
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Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but…
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I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all…
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The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.
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We do not live in centred space anymore, but have to create our own centres.
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That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself…
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In literature imitations do not imitate.
— Mark Twain
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The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a…
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"Nationwide" featured an amazing collection of apprentice impersonators. From all over Britain, schoolchildren materialised via local studios to give us their imitations…
— Clive James
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Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the…
— Brooks Atkinson
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We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations…
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I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature
— Coco Chanel
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There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger,…
— Gabrielle Roth
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Imitations only better the original.
— Sammy Davis, Jr.
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I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me…
— Coco Chanel
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He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of…
— Joshua Reynolds
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