John Banville Quotes

Equal doesn't mean identical.

One thing I realised was that everyone is different. You can't compare two human beings.

There's no such thing as equality. No two people are the same. You will not have the same clothes.

Always do something different from the others.

I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.

Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.

I'm attracted to things that are different than the average run-of-the-mill stuff.

Everyone's different with different ways of doing things.

Everything about me was different.

I like it that we are not the same.

Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.

I've noticed that most people tend to go through life preserving their differences from others.

No two of our stores are the same.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.

It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

Longhorns are unique - each and every one of them is a different color with a different design.

If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary.

Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.

Every song is different.

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.