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Letter "I" » imitator
«[The Japanese] are extremely good imitators ? and so polite they even copy the mistakes.»
«I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.»
«I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.»
«It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality»
Author: Eric Hoffer
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Writer)
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Keywords:
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originality,
orthodoxy,
pedant,
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stifled,
stifles,
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stirrings
«O imitators, you slavish herd!»
«The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse of contempt, or the omissions of negligence»
«The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
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Philosopher,
Theologian)
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Keywords:
bitterness,
enjoys,
expresses,
express feelings,
former,
imitator,
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In Search Of,
martyrdom,
rejoices,
The Strange