Genuine Imitation Life

Famous quotes containing the words genuine, imitation and/or life:

    The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic—in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea—known to medical science is work.
    Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)

    Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
    Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
    Joan Didion (b. 1934)