Silence is golden but too long a silence an imitation junk
Amit AbrahamTags: imitation silence junk golden
Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less an individual (a subject) than an element in a mass.
Milan Kundera..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.
Henry JamesBut once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are essentially imitators, provided, of course, that they are able to make use of language.
Pierre BoulleTags: books imitation writing language apes theme
Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.
Ngaio MarshTags: style reading imitation writing models
There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.
G.K. ChestertonTags: individuality wisdom imitation self-denial
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.
T.S. EliotTags: imitation inspiration influence
To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergTags: imitation
As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could begin. This imitation seemed to be an external compulsion. Little children didn’t have it. It seemed to come later on, possibly as a result of school itself.
That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. If you don’t imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A’s. Originality on the other hand could get you anything – from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.
Tags: education learning school imitation rhetoric grades
The ones that landed near the bathroom are Bad Tolkien imitations or transcripts of a D
Sharyn McCrumbTags: imitation literary-criticism fandom fanfiction
« first previous
Page 3 of 4.
next last »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.