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Sameness Quotes (page 208)

Jodi Picoult quote: "Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me"Do what?"Push me off..."
Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me"Do what?"Push me off the same cliff twice Jodi Picoult
When I was twelve I was obsessed. Everything was sex. Latin was sex. The dictionary fell open at 'meretrix', a harlot. You could feel the mystery coming off the word like musk. 'Meretrix'! This was none of your mensa-a-table, this was a flash from a forbidden planet, and it was everywhere. History was sex, French was sex, art was sex, the Bible, poetry, penfriends, games, music, everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but not really sex, not the one which was secret and... Tom Stoppard
Emile M. Cioran quote: "The dead center of existence: when it is all the same to you..."
The dead center of existence: when it is all the same to you whether you read a newspaper article or think about God. Emile M. Cioran
Aaron Sorkin quote: "A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face..."
A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room. Aaron Sorkin
Being in trouble can have a funny effect on the mind. I don't know if I can explain this. You go through some days and you seem to be hearing people and you seem to be talking to them and you seem to be doing your work, or, at least, your work gets done; but you haven't seen or heard a soul and if someone asked you what you have done that day you'd have to think awhile before you could answer. But at the same time, and even on the self-same day-- and this is what is hard to explain--you see... James Baldwin
The job of the financial journalist was to examine the sharks who created interest crises and speculated away the savings of small investors, to scrutinize company boards with the same merciless zeal. Steig Larsson
Khalil Gibran quote: "The self same well from which your laughs rises was oftentimes..."
The self same well from which your laughs rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. Khalil Gibran
...of eighteen kittens reared in the company of rodents, only three became rodent-killers later on. The other fifteen could not be trained to kill later by seeing other cats killing. For them the rodents had become 'family' and were no longer 'prey'. Even the three killers would not attack rodents of the same species as the one with which they were reared. Desmond Morris
Is it true that you insisted you knew no difference in beauty between some brutal sensual stunt and any great deed, even the sacrifice of life for mankind? Is it true that you found a coincidence in beauty, a sameness of pleasure at both poles? ...You married out of a passion for torture, out of a passion for remorse, out of moral sensuality. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together. Oscar Wilde
...You're going to stay here and help Daran in every way you can. Don't let him sink into melancholia the way his father has...Now, pull yourself together. Blow your nose and fix your face. Daran's talking to the Rivan Warder right now. I'll take you to where they are, and then I have to leave."You're not even going to stay for the funeral?"I've got the funeral in my heart, Pol, the same as you have. No amount of ceremony's going to make it go away. Now go fix your face. You look awful. David Eddings
Mark Twain quote: "Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the..."
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason. Mark Twain
Franklin D. Roosevelt quote: "It is fun to be in the same decade with you. -Roosevelt to..."
It is fun to be in the same decade with you. -Roosevelt to Churchill Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or ideas he has repeated to himself or convinced himself are true. These negative ideas have exactly the same effect upon our behavior as the negative ideas implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional hypnotist. Maxwell Maltz
Now that they had a secure hiding place almost a home it did not even seem a hardship that they could only meet infrequently and for a couple of hours at a time. What mattered was that the room should exist. To know that it was there inviolate was almost the same as being in it. George Orwell

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