Quotes with copying

  • A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
  • As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

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  • Betty Friedan A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
    ― Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Boris Pasternak As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
    ― Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Arthur Rock IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968.
    ― Arthur Rock
    American businessman and investor (1926 - )
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  • Augusto Roa Bastos Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.
    ― Augusto Roa Bastos
    Paraguayan novelist and writer (1917 - 2005)
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  • Alberto Giacometti Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
    ― Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Quentin Crisp The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
    ― Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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