The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it. Fritz Leiber
There is a flavor that our time (perhaps surfeited by the clumsy imitations of professional patriots) does not usually perceive without some suspicion: the fundamental flavor of the heroic. Jorge Luis Borges
There was no substitute for reality; one should be aware of imitations. Arthur C. Clarke
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, and the imitations of it, there are no true demonstrations. Blaise Pascal
It would be as natural for a full-grown tiger to mew as for a man released from the slavery of imitations ever to go back to his neighbor again with: "What do you think of this? What do you advise about that?”. Henry S. Haskins