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Quotes About Sameness

As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.
~ David Nicholls
The softening strands of light dulled the ragged blossoms of the hedgerows into a smear of sameness.
~ David Park
You're driving me NORMAL!
~ Jeff Lindsay
All'interno della massa domina l'uguaglianza. Essa è assoluta e indiscutibile, e non è mai posta in questione dalla massa stessa.
~ Elias Canetti
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
At the danger of waxing nostalgic about the 'old days,' I don't want to be like everyone else. I want acceptance, but I want acceptance of my difference, not my sameness. It's a funny contract. The cultural machine wants to chew everyone up and turn them into this uniform little substance.
~ Alison Bechdel
The more things change, the more they are the same.
~ Alphonse Karr
Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.
~ John Osborne
My parents were going through a divorce, and I used to go spend all weekend at the movies to get away from it all. There was something about the sameness of the movies. It was a place for me to go to express my emotions, you know, and let it out.
~ Tim Matheson
It's as natural as anyone else.
~ Robert B. Parker
We're not so different." The girl burst out laughing. "Ohmigod! Oh my God—dude! Maybe you're high!" Pike put the car in gear, but kept his foot on the brake. Their sameness seemed obvious. "You want to be seen; me, I want to be invisible. It's all the same." The girl stared at him, then straightened herself the way he had straightened himself. She said, "An idealist.
~ Robert Crais
I get tired of other girls—there is such a provoking and eternal sameness about them.
~ L. M. Montgomery
Whether I'm single or in a relationship, I'm the same person. The same human being.
~ William Levy
Haven't written here in several days, I don't know how many: All the days seem like one. All the days have one color—yellow, like parched, fiery sand. And there isn't a shred of shade, nor a drop of water, and no end of the yellow sand.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Everybody's the same. People are all the same. But it's the prerogative of youth to think it's not so.
~ Yukio Mishima
Well, as they say, all cats are grey in the dark.
~ Emma Donoghue
Well you needn't have any 'feelings' about mountains, said Philip. Mountains are all the same - just tops, middles and bottoms, sometimes with sheep on and sometimes without.
~ Enid Blyton
A brand offers a feeling of reassurance when its products are always and everywhere the same.
~ Eric Schlosser
Equality today means "sameness," rather than "oneness." It is the sameness of abstractions, of the men who work in the same jobs, who have the same amusements, who read the same newspapers, who have the same feelings and the same ideas.
~ Erich Fromm
I don't go to Delhi malls, because malls are the same everywhere.
~ Himani Shivpuri
Lia had mentioned staleness, and I wondered if this was it. Growing old in this town, with these women you've known your entire life, eating cucumber and cream cheese sandwiches, and rehashing the same gossip week after week. As comfortable as I was in my routine, in my sameness, I could see how that might seem terrifying.
~ Adrian Page
A world with one month is a world of equality.
~ Alan Lightman
And, of course, it might simply be that everyone's become a little bored with one another, doing the same things over and over, hearing and telling the same stories.
~ Don Lee
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
~ Lois Lowry, The Giver