Quotes by Bastos, Augusto Roa

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with >>

Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by >>

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. >>

Quotations about Imitation

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy. >>

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. >>

Imitation is the sincerest form of television. >>

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.

Bastos, Augusto Roa