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#imitation

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Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about. ↗


— Stanley Schmidt


#fun #ideas #limitations #physical #play

All art is but imitation of nature. ↗


— Lucius Annaeus Seneca


#imitation #nature

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me. ↗


— Ayrton Senna


#body #continuously #further #go #i

On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life. ↗


— Anna Howard Shaw


#came #day #every #hour #life

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try. ↗


— Curtis Sittenfeld


#books #captivated #could #enjoyed #hmm

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement. ↗


— Leon Trotsky


#applied #blend #blow #boldly #completely

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's. ↗


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#individuality #invention #beauty

Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure. ↗


— Dejan Stojanovic


#dejan-stojanovic #empowerment #limitations #literature #literature-quotes

Those who do not succeed do not believe in their ability to exercise the potential power to forge beyond perceptions of limitations. ↗


— T.F. Hodge


#exercise #forge #limitations #limits #perceptions

The ones that landed near the bathroom are Bad Tolkien imitations or transcripts of a D&D adventure; bad Herbert, Heinlein, and Asimov are below the television; and these on the bed are the ones whose authors I want to hunt down personally and slap. ↗


— Sharyn McCrumb


#fanfiction #imitation #literary-criticism #literary-criticism






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