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It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation.
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Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us.
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We are drawn to each other like drops of water, like the planets we repulse each other like magnets, like the color of our skin.
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Like likes like." When
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The characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of them, my language, which is inspired by them, repeats the same poems in the same tone.
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Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.
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By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.
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Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
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All of us admire people we don't like and like people we don't admire.
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The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to hermother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.
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Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.
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The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.
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Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
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In the ends its the things within us, that make us more alike than we will ever know.
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Like calls to like, soul calls to soul,
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision ...
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Mother, I will look to like. If looking liking moves.
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Not like Homer would I write,
Not like Dante if I might,
Not like Shakespeare at his best,
Not like Goethe or the rest,
Like myself, however small,
Like myself, or not at all.
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Opposites attract in physics. In life, like attracts like. Kindness attracts kindness. Greed attracts greed. Love attracts love. If you don't like what you're attracting, change who you are.
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When you're around people, act like you like them.
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Exactly. You like me. The word you use was like. You'll find someone better than me. Someone you'll love and not just like.
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I'm a lot like you,
and you're a lot like me.
It's sad to say,
and it's sad to see.
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I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others.
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking
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That the more things resemble each other, the stronger the sympathetic link between them will be.
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Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of 'like' are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.
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The human heart ... tells us that we are more alike than we are unalike.
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Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases
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Whatever We Hold in Thought Comes True in Our Experience; Like Attracts Like; we experiment with the Law of Changing Appearances, to make our outer world reflect our inner.
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Similes are like metaphors.
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Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.
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He bore the same sort of resemblance to his mother that our loving memory of a friend's face often bears to the face itself: the lines were all more generous, the smile brighter, the expression heartier. If
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A good friend is my nearest relation.
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Oh. Listen, this is really hard for me ... "
"What is?"
"You know. Being liked." I started to cry. I couldn't help it.
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Much of human language is said to be fundamentally metaphorical. This is not good news. Metaphor, according to Aristotle, is an intuitive perception of a similarity in dissimilar things. However, what is a similarity? My Juliet is the sun: in what sense? A
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It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who they most closely, if often unexpectedly, resemble.
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Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
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I like people, for a little while.
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The less you are like others, the less others will like you.
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Familiarity breeds liking.
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Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of a way to sufficiently describe the charisma of a certain boy, so the narrator says, "I knew girls who saved his gum."
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One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming.
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In friendship similarity of character has more weight than kinship.
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We prefer people who are trying to imitate us more than those who are trying to equal us. This is because imitation is a sign of esteem, but the desire to equal others is a sign of envy.
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Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.
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The admiration of another writer's work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.
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Like begets like; honesty begets honesty; trust, trust; and so on.
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Similarity is the shadow of difference. Two things are similar by virtue of their difference from another; or different by virtue of one's similarity to a third. So it is with individuals.
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We are just waves in time and space, changing continuously, and the illusion of individuality is produced through the concatenation of the rapidly succeeding phases of existence. What we define as likeness is merely the result of the symmetrical arrangement of molecules which compose our body.
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray.
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You know, when I first met
you, in Idris, I had hopes - I had thought you would be like me. And when you were
nothing like me, I hated you. And then, when I was brought back, and Jace told me what
you did, I realized that I had been wrong. You are like me.
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For me, I feel like I relate to a lot of people.
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Like" and "like" and "like"
but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?
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When I'm scrambling between dress and air, there are people I like more than other people.
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It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.
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When language starts transcending materialism, one begins to speak of analogies instead of symbols.
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It is interesting to find that those whom I like, they also like me.
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The flowers like me back.
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I try and picture you reading this
there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to you, connect in my mind with you.
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Writing analogies are as abundant as ants at a picnic. We love nothing better than a good analogy, a "life-is-like-this" on the page. I breathe and out pops another analogy. As of this moment, I am sole owner of 1,643 analogies.
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There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives?
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She is not the child that mirrors me, and yet when you put us side by side, there are definite similarities. It's not in the shape of the mouth but the set of it, the sheer determination that silvers our eyes.
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One of the great lies we tell ourselves is that just because we're related to people, we have to like them.
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How then did it work out, this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it was liking one felt, or disliking?
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We tend to become like those whom we admire.
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To write, for example, a crime that is horrible but which somehow 'resembles' the butterfly, which would be light and fine like the butterfly. I could also describe the butterfly, but bearing in mind the horrible scene of a crime, so that the butterfly would become something frightful.
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We youths say "like" all the time because we mistrust reality.
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Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.
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People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have much in common.
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Your inclination appears to be much as
it was last night."
Damen found himself saying, "You talk
the same in bed," and the words came
out sounding like he felt: helplessly
charmed.
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People are most similar to God when he is the object of their affection. People should delight in God, as he does in himself.
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Like speaks to like only; labor to labor, philosophy to philosophy, criticism to criticism, poetry to poetry. Literature speaks how much still to the past, how little to the future, how much to the East, how little to the West.
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When you like people you forgive their faults and look past their mistakes.
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How much an ill word may empoison liking!
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Liken had discovered that she was scared of heights, secretly read erotic stories, and had incredibly ticklish feet.
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People become like what they love.
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I think we're all more alike than we want to believe sometimes.
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Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates.
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The law of attraction says like attracts like.
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The best ingredients for likeableness are a happy expression of countenance, an unaffected manner, and a sympathetic attitude.
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Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.
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Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.
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Imitation is flattery
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To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.
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In the land of love, like is more than enough.
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As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurious to both of us. To me, as tending to produce in my mind a feeling of self-elevation; and to my brother, by creating in him a dislike both towards my father and me.
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As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: "Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B."
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Not liking you is like fighting gravity.
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You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.
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A candle is like a small sun, but the sun is like a large candle; examined closely, language turns out to operate through the lateral associations of metaphor, rather than through the vertical identifications of naming.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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I hate the concept of likeability - it gave us two terms of George Bush, whom a plurality of voters wanted to have a beer with, and Facebook. You'd unfriend a lot of people if you knew them as intimately and unsparingly as a good novel would. But not the ones you actually love.
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It is always good to strive to be like people whom you respect. Conversely, I also feel that there are not many things more depressing than finding out that you have things in common with people you detest.
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When everyone is telling you, 'You're so beautiful, there's nobody like you,' you begin to think it's true. But of course there is nobody like you.
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No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance; as where the same ideas are conjoined without any natural series or necessary coherence, or where not only the thought but the words are copied.
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Friendship is identification and difference
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Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.
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That which is like unto itself, is drawn.