Imitation Of Life Quotes

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  It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.247, Northwestern University Press

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• 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 bitterest.

  Confucius

  Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

  "Words of Wisdom to Live By". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.

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

  Erno Rubik

  Cubes, Improvement, Imitation

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• Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

  Alfred de Vigny

  Art, Use, Imitation

  Alfred de Vigny (1840). “Cinq Mars (Complete)”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Revenge, Imitation, Refrain

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• Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Imitation, Imitating

  Intentions "The Decay of Lying" (1891)

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• Well, I'm going up and up and up - and nobody's going to pull me down!

  Lana Turner

  Wells

  "Fictional character: Lora Meredith". "Imitation of Life", www.imdb.com. 1959.

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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 footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.

  Brooks Atkinson

  People, Theatre, Sides

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• You feel touched by a movie in a good or bad way or you have a strong reaction to something that's totally artificial, to an imitation of life. But that imitation of life that you see on the screen can affect you almost as if it was real.

  Gaspar Noe

  Strong, Real, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In 'Imitation of Life', I was showing how a girl might feel under the circumstances, but I am not showing how I felt.

  Fredi Washington

  Girl, Might, Imitation

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• Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility. What was plainly lacking, long before the barbarian invasions had done their work, long before economic dislocations became serious, was inner go. Rome’s life was now an imitation of life: a mere holding on. Security was the watchword – as if life knew any other stability than through constant change, or any form of security except through a constant willingness to take risks

  Lewis Mumford

  Responsibility, Rome, Long

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• Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.

  John Lydon

  Art, Should Have, Humanity

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