A Quote by Mary Gaitskill

Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.

Mary Gaitskill

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Certain Insects Leaves Life Like Mimic Stories Twigs

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Mary Gaitskill
American - Novelist
Born: November 11, 1954

You try to go with something that's familiar to people and that way they can jump on board with what you're trying to do basically. I only mimic people that really have like interesting voices because it's really hard to mimic like someone who just talks regularly like me like there's nothing fun about that.

Kenan Thompson

Children or babies learn to mimic the vibration of the adults who surround them long before they learn to mimic their words.

Esther Hicks

The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.

Edsger Dijkstra

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family

Jane Smiley

And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them?

Mervyn Peake

Ikebana is meant to mimic life in the way it develops; it shouldn't look like it's under the control of man.

Camille Henrot

I like to mimic my grandkids. I'm trying to understand the intensity of fixation on a leaf. Kids don't need anything else in their life.

Dustin Hoffman

I don't tend to work directly from life, except in trying to mimic or match the outlines of its insanity. In other words, when I live through something, I just try to say to myself, "OK, remember this - life is really this crazy or scary or beautiful or surprising - so try to 'get at' that in your stories.

George Saunders

People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.

Colin Angle

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I try to mimic the pattern of memory and of thinking and the randomness of life. It's like a journey. That is the main thing about the beauty of life; that you don't cram. And not only beauty, but also the fact that there is never a concrete thing in life.