Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. — Quoted

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“Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.”

Lionel Trilling · Art

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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

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Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

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