Memory is. . . similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
I have to say in premise 'Winter Journal' is really not a memoir. And I don't even think of it as an autobiography. I think of it as a literary composition - similar to music - composed of autobiographical fragments. I'm really not telling the story of my life in a coherent narrative form.
I happen to believe that we should move to a Medicare-for-all single-payer system, similar to what other countries around the world have.
Pretending to drink coffee was similar to faking an orgasm.
The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of the state. But to destroy it at such a moment would be to destroy the only organism by means of which the victorious proletariat can assert its newly-conquered power, hold down its capitalist adversaries, and carry out that economic revolution of society without which the whole victory must end in a new defeat and a mass slaughter of the workers similar to those after the Paris commune.
Whatever emotions you're going through, you somehow seek out the people that are going through similar emotions or that maybe have something you need.
Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
I think bears and worms aren't very similar. . . until you think of gummy.
All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.
If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man’s head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will be the struggle for freedom of those who really understand that they are slaves of nature.
Great food is similar to great sex. Extra you have greater you want.
Well, 45-odd years of doing it, so we all pile up the things we like about directors and the things we don't like about directors. And sometimes they're very similar.
You can now share your story anonymously much more easily than you could earlier and you can watch people have conversations about it. And when people come out and say negative things about you, there will be other people who have had similar experiences or who know people who have had similar experiences who will defend you.
Brain damage and stupidity are very different things, but can have similar effects on the wearer.
Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.
This constitution we designate by the word genotype. The word is entirely independent of any hypothesis; it is fact, not hypothesis that different zygotes arising by fertilisation can thereby have different qualities, that, even under quite similar conditions of life, phenotypically diverse individuals can develop.
There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
Scott Walker's campaign slogan is 'Reform. Growth. Safety. ' Which is actually similar to Donald Trump's new slogan: 'Mexico. Money. Crazy. '
A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
The predation of wolves and women by those who misunderstand them is strikingly similar.