“Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

"Imitation," p. 26
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Happiness of Atoms”

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poet, writer, and businessman 1959

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Variant: Very touching," said a voice from the stairway. "Do you want me to imitate a violin?" - Damon
Source: The Fury

“Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person.”

Georg Brandes (1842–1927) Danish literature critic and scholar

Source: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), p. 26

“The last child is always loved by the parents, simply because he has the ability to imitate and learn from those who saw the sun before him.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Making art, any art, you are in some way trying to imitate life, and the ways in which that succeeds or fails is fascinating to me…”

Naomi Iizuka (1965) American dramatist

On art versus life in “Berkeley world premiere for Naomi Iizuka play” https://www.sfgate.com/performance/article/Berkeley-world-premiere-for-Naomi-Iizuka-play-3271229.php in SF Gate (2010 Mar 4)

“We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.”

Oswald Mosley (1896–1980) British politician; founder of the British Union of Fascists

In 1927 after his Labour Party meeting in Cambridge was broken-up by pro-Fascist undergraduates. The mention of "ice-cream sellers" was a reference to Italian immigrants who had opened ice-cream parlours.

“I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.”

Marilyn vos Savant (1946) US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer