"In imitation is a bit suicide."
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"Imitation cannot go above its model."
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"I've been doing a pale imitation of Bill Murray for most of my career."
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"Conformity is an imitation of grace."
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"I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute."
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"How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation."
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"Imitation is a necessity of human nature."
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"In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation."
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"It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense."
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"Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another."
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"In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts."
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"I definitely worked really hard to evoke Frankie Valli, but not do a strict imitation, because I feel that a strict imitation is not as compelling to watch."
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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 all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated."
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"It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators."
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"The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original."
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