The situation of our youth is not mysterious. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never... failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A tragic poet will never think of grouping around the chief character in his play secondary characters to serve as simplified copi...es, so to speak, of the former. The hero of a tragedy represents an individuality unique of its kind. It may be possible to imitate him, but then we shall be passing, whether consciously or not, from the tragic to the comic. No one is like him, because he is like no one. But a remarkable instinct, on the contrary, impels the comic poet, once he has elaborated his central character, to cause other characters, displaying the same general traits, to revolve as satellites round him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Martha: "What is Autumn?" Jan: "A second spring, where the leaves imitate the flowers. Maybe it would be so too with human beings ...that you would see bloom if only you helped them with your patience."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have been grateful to you from the day you turned your attention to the follies and fanaticisms of religious sects. Against thos...e fools and impostors you employ the most appropriate weapons: to use others would be to imitate them. It is by ridicule that they must be attacked, and by scorn that they must be punished.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Shall we never have done with that cliché, so stupid that it could only be human, about the sympathy of animals for man when he i...s unhappy? Animals love happiness almost as much as we do. A fit of crying disturbs them, they'll sometimes imitate sobbing, and for a moment they'll reflect our sadness. But they flee unhappiness as they flee fever, and I believe that in the long run they are capable of boycotting it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When children dress like adults they are more likely to behave as adults do, to imitate adult actions. It is hard to walk like an ...adult male wearing corduroy knickers that make an awful noise. But boys in long pants can walk like men, and little girls in tight jeans can walk like women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »