A Quote by Judith Butler

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

Judith Butler

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Judith Butler
American - Philosopher
Born: February 24, 1956

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

Judith Butler

Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.

John Dryden

Religion is not an imitation of Jesus or Mohammed. Even if an imitation is good, it is never genuine. Be not an imitation of Jesus, but be Jesus, You are quite as great as Jesus, Buddha, or anybody else. If we are not ... we must struggle and be. I would not be exactly like Jesus. It is unnecessary that I should be born a Jew.

Swami Vivekananda

Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation.

Rajneesh

It is always better to be an original than an imitation.

Theodore Roosevelt

Imitation is a caricature. Any imitation. Find out for yourself.

Vladimir Horowitz

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.

Walter Darby Bannard

Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.

Tom Bissell

The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.

Luise Rainer

Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation

Thomas Gainsborough

You don't want it to be a replica or an imitation. You want to create something fresh, original, very unique.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign original in a process of imitation, zigzagging between the foreign and receiving languages but in the last analysis cancelling the first in favor of the second.

Lawrence Venuti

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Voltaire

When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.