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• Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.

  Dodie Smith

  Cows, Topaz, Patient

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.83, St. Martin's Griffin

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• There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive.

  Anais Nin

  Men, Two, Feelings

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• Who's that new guy with the snooty accent who came out and talked to the police?" Evan persisted. "He looks like some kind of male model." "That's just my cousin Ian," Amy explained. "Not much of a family resemblance," Evan noted sourly. "He's like a twenty-fifth cousin, ten times removed." Evan was not satisfied.

  Gordon Korman

  Cousin, Guy, Police

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• The resemblance of ... the alien abduction of 'experiencers' to the contracts described by our own volunteers is undeniable. How can anyone doubt, after reading our accounts... that DMT elicits 'typical' alien encounters?

  Rick Strassman

  Reading, Dmt, Volunteer

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• When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have the same tastes in clothing, flatter a woman with the same metaphor) and a tedious monotony among events (they are all just an endless repetition of the same one); but in her adolescence she welcomes these coincidences as miraculous and she is avid to decipher their meanings.

  Milan Kundera

  Kissing, Avid, Events

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• The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have in common are the words at our backs. The idioms for revenge are 'report a crime' and 'report to five families.' The reporting is the vengeance-not the beheading, not the gutting, but the words.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Inspiring, Revenge, People

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.62, Vintage

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• Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green glade ... Such was that happy garden-state.

  Andrew Marvell

  Happiness, Ocean, Garden

  Andrew Marvell (2016). “"To His Coy Mistress" and Other Poems”, p.25, Courier Dover Publications

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• PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Character, Differences

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.181, University of Georgia Press

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• I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

  Tamora Pierce

  Growing, Daffodil

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “Page: Book 2 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.110, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I turned over, and those big hands got to work on my back. I stifled a whimper in the pillow, because Marco's idea of a massage bore no resemblance whatsoever to the relaxing spa variety. There was no lavender oil, no soothing music, no hot towels. Just an all-out assault on cramped muscles, until they cowered in surrender and turned to Jell-O.

  Karen Chance

  Hands, Ideas, Oil

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.1832, Penguin

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• There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.

  Edna Ferber

  Country, Interesting, May

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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• Quite generally, international affairs have more than a slight resemblance to the Mafia. The Godfather does not take it lightly when he is crossed, even by a small storekeeper.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mafia, Doe, Affair

  Noam Chomsky (2007). “Interventions”, p.198, City Lights Publishers

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• Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or No Trespassing signs. They throw suspension bridges across great distances. These elegant and unexpected combinations flow together beautifully in the twilight zone, where metaphor and resemblance rules in place of logic and classification.

  Robert Moss

  Distance, Twilight, Bridges

  Robert Moss (2010). “Dreamgates: Exploring the Worlds of Soul, Imagination, and Life Beyond Death”, p.158, New World Library

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• Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

  Wallace Stevens

  Art, Poetry, Desire

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• The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.

  Mason Cooley

  Drama, Tragedy, Littles

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• The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience ... The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characterisitics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won't sue.

  Wallace Stegner

  Real, Character, Two

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• I'm not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experienceas that freeze-dried astronaut food bears to a nice standing rib roast. From what I remember of praying in school, it was almost an insult to God, a rote exercise in moving your mouth while daydreaming or checking out the cutest boy in the seventh grade that was a far, far cry from soul-searching.

  Anna Quindlen

  Spiritual, Prayer, Nice

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• I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.

  Francoise Sagan

  People, Found, Novel

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• Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the collective context - which presupposes, of course, that words are used to convey information about the idea and the context. However, none of this means that pictures function as illustrations of an idea: ultimately, they are the idea. Nor is the verbal formulation of the idea a translation of the visual: it simply bears a certain resemblance to the meaning of the idea. It is an interpretation, literally a reflection.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Mean, Reflection

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• Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.

  Theodor Adorno

  Life, Jobs, Looks

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• Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.

  Salman Rushdie

  Might, Gaddafi, Casts

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• International relations bears more than a slight resemblance to the mafia.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mafia, Bears, Relation

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• All great progress takes place when two sciences come together, and when their resemblance proclaims itself, despite the apparent disparity of their substance.

  Henri Poincare

  Two, Progress, Together

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• Time is to eternity as an image is to its exemplar, and those things which are temporal bear a resemblance to those things which are eternal.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Bears, Eternity, Eternal

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• ... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal Platonic Horseshit that exists, evidently, only in the contemplation of those who worship such abstractions; and I continue to notice that Natural Law bears an uncanny resemblance to ideal Platonic Horseshit.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Real, Years, Law

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