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Immature Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes,
- Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
- One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature…
- 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.
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- Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. — Woody Allen
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- Somewhere around twenty-five, bizarre becomes immature. — Bridget Fonda
- My rookie year, I was very immature. — Dennis Rodman
- The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one — Wilhelm Stekel
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- The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through. — Harry Allen Overstreet