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The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life. -- Erno Rubik
Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it. -- John Lydon
Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life? -- Alfred de Vigny
Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine. -- Brooks Atkinson
You feel touched by a movie in a good or bad way or you have a strong reaction to something that's totally artificial, to an imitation of life. But that imitation of life that you see on the screen can affect you almost as if it was real. -- Gaspar Noe
Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action -- Aristotle
How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation. -- Stephen King
No other virtue makes man more equal to the angels, than the imitation of their way of life. -- John Cassian
And there's also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like. -- Regina King
He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation. -- John Stuart Mill
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As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film. -- Ira Sachs
The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty. -- Thomas Paine
Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar's dinner, from a hundred charities? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves. -- Quintilian

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