Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
The human tendency is to resemble or imitate those we admire; the common result is the delusion, that to emulate another’s personality creates a pseudo persona, measurably dissimilar from our own.
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
