Marguerite Duras Quotes

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.

Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of us that connect.

It's nice to feel like you have more in common with people rather than more differences.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

I think we're all more alike than we want to believe sometimes.

I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.

The first thing I do when I start a role is I look to see where we're similar. What do you get for nothing, you know?

You always feel more attracted to people who play the way you play.

Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.

We are more alike than unalike.

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

I wanted to do something different. Therefore, the first person I thought would have been too exclusionary. It would have said me, me, me, me, me. I, I, I, I, I. As if I were pushing away my experiences from the experiences of others. Because basically what I was trying to do was show our commonality. I mean to say, in the very ordinariness of what I recount I think perhaps the reader will find resonances with his or her own life.

I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.

Finally, I have someone that's like me. My other two pupils were the opposite sides of the moon. But this guy is on the same side of the moon, is on the same planet that I'm on.

Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.

The cool thing about superheroes is that they all have these very human roots, and that brings them all together and makes them all the same, in a way.

Empathy is choosing to see ourselves in another despite our differences. It's recognizing that the same humanity - the same desire for meaning, fulfillment and security - exists in each of us, even if it's expressed uniquely.

Sometimes if you can tell one personal story with a lot of sincerity, it can become a universal story.

There's a universal inside of me. So if I tell my story, you're going to see parts of your story in it. I don't know which parts, but we all overlap. We're all very much alike.

At the end of the day, we are all humans.

I feel my situation is no different from anybody else's experiences.

I hope that my lyrics have a way that they're so specific they become universal, and they go, 'Oh I've been there, I know what that's like.'