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  • It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

    People   Luck   Enemy  
    LadyWindermere's Fan act 1 (1892)
  • I am not young enough to know everything.

    The Admirable Crichton (performed 1902, pubd. 1914) act 1
  • The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral memory. The swells rose sluggishly and fell away, casting up dismal gleams between the boards of the pier. And the whole pier rose and fell in stiff and creaking mimicry, dancing its long slow dance of dissolution. I reached the end and saw no one, heard nothing but my footsteps and the creak of the beams, the slap of waves on the pilings. It was a fifteen-foot drop to the dim water. The nearest land ahead of me was Hawaii.

    Memories   Moving   Sea  
    Ross Macdonald (2012). “The Drowning Pool”, p.183, Penguin UK
  • The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

  • Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.

    Wise   Dream   Thinking  
  • Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave.

    Stars   Rocks   Rolling  
  • Having financial independence does not increase one's chances of independent, artistic creation whatsoever. Our conditioned behavior toward mimicry for the sake of market forces is an amazing syndrome. The watchtowers guide us well.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

    Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897
  • I’m a big fan of parrots - I think they’re fascinating creatures. Many of them live for longer than us humans and it's interesting to me the way they learn to mimic human voices even though they don't really comprehend what they're saying.

  • Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.

    Real   Doe   Mimicry  
  • It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

    Passion   Men   People  
    Oscar Wilde (1977). “The illustrated Oscar Wilde”
  • I was a class clown, of the classic term for it. I would get the work done easily, and then I would try to deprive other people of their educations. I developed skills for mimicry, and I was a good showoff. I knew how to get attention, and I knew how to do it in a positive funny way.

    Class   Skills   People  
    Source: mavericksofthemind.com
  • The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

  • If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

    Funny   Music   Witty  
    Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.257, Penguin
  • Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

  • Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

    Song   Men   Mimicry  
  • As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an obsessive-compulsive-disorder level-fixation on mimicry, tonality of voice, to literally imitate something until I can just disappear into it.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

    Funny   Clever   Hipster  
    Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions
  • One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

    Love   Funny   Sarcastic  
    Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.144, Penguin
  • Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt I was doing my best in the way of mimicry.

    Anxiety   Way   Mimicry  
    Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.103, Hamilton Books
  • Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

    Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.139, Simon and Schuster
  • I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

  • Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

    Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing
  • There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank. How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesn’t recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht.

    Hero   Gay   Rights  
    "The Rage Is Not About Health Care". www.nytimes.com. March 27, 2010.
  • Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.

    Love   Hate   Men  
  • What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.

  • Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.

    Pat Conroy (2010). “My Losing Season”, p.51, Random House
  • It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that clutter the minds of men and mould them into the mimicry of living ways.

    Courage   Men   Mind  
  • The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

    "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)
  • Theory and knowledge remain suspect, not because of inherent worthlessness, but because of their historic isolation from action. Without theoretical orientation, however, action is vulnerable to oversimplified and glib imitativeness-even mimicry-and to the use of the gimmick.

    Gimmicks   Mimicry   Use  
    Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). “Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice”
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