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236 Resemble quotes by 213 unique authors

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us. — Emile M. Cioran
People said that he was very nice, but I confess that his utter grotesqueness made me uneasy; perhaps in the same way that the sight… — James A. Baldwin
Cherie, did the table do something I did not see or were you just attempting to teach it a lesson?" "I was imagining it was… — Alexandra Ivy
The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them. — P.G. Wodehouse
If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating. — Sylvia Plath
Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal… — Rebecca Solnit
The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself. — Henry Rollins
It's a question of discipline,' the little prince told me later on. 'when you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod... — Jodi Picoult
Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they… — Jules Verne
If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and… — H. L. Mencken
But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us… — Albert Camus
A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story. — Isaac Babel
The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending… — Janet Frame
The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
People changed lots of other personal things all the time. They dyed their hair and dieted themselves to near death. They took steroids to build… — Ellen Wittlinger
It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate. — Stephen R. Donaldson
My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object… — Marquis de Sade
How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to… — George Orwell
I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some… — Michael Cunningham
…all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God. — Dante Alighieri
Dead bodies didn't resemble unconscious ones; it was as if you could sense that something had fled from them, that some essential spark was now… — Cassandra Clare
The others had taken Valek's return in stride, although Janco made a comment about Valek's lack of hair. "You ever notice how couples start to… — Maria V. Snyder
Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book. — Julia Quinn
My hands resemble some ancient tree: the roots that bind up the earth, the rock and the ceaselessly nibbling wordms. — Mark Z. Danielewski

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