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Preference Quotes (page 19)

That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it. Laurell K. Hamilton
I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not afraid to eat a lobster alone as they take on their shoulders the monumental weight of thirty years James Baldwin
Dumbledore had not raised his voice, he did not even sound angry, but Harry would have preferred him to yell; this cold disappointment was worse than anything. J. K. Rowling
I'm not really the scented envelope kid of girl, preferring instead to send yellow Jiffy-lite mailers packed with whatever song is on my mind. Sarah Vowell
Ruth Rendell quote: "Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading. Ruth Rendell
Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theatre. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins. Cornelia Funke
J. D. Salinger quote: "I just hope that one day - preferably when we’re both blind..."
I just hope that one day - preferably when we’re both blind drunk - we can talk about it. J. D. Salinger
It is the quality of a great soul to scorn great things and to prefer that which is ordinary rather than that which is too great. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Jerzy Kosinski quote: "People prefer to avoid confronting deformity and when they do..."
People prefer to avoid confronting deformity and when they do it's only for kicks. Jerzy Kosinski
Clearly,” I said, “we should choose not to have good sense, if that good sense contributes to our misery.” Everyone agreed with me, and yet I found no one who wanted to accept the bargain of becoming ignorant in order to become content. From this I concluded that though we greatly value happiness, we place even greater value on reason. But yet, upon reflection, it seems that to prefer reason to happiness is to be quite insane. Voltaire
Oedipa resolved to pull in at the next motel she saw, however ugly, stillness and four walls having at some point become preferable to this illusion of speed, freedom, wind in your hair, unreeling landscape—it wasn’t. What the road really was, she fancied, was this hypodermic needle, inserted somewhere ahead into the vein of a freeway, a vein nourishing the mainliner L.A., keeping it happy, coherent, protected from pain, or whatever passes, with a city, for pain. But were Oedipa some single... Thomas Pynchon
Fernando Pessoa quote: "I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I..."
I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else. Fernando Pessoa
He laughed, and it raised goose-bumps on my arms. "Oh, ma petite , ma petite , you are precious."Just what I wanted to hear. "So how are you getting here?"My private jet."Of course, he had a private jet. "When can you be here?"I will be there as soon as I can, my impatient flower."I prefer ma petite to flower. Laurell K. Hamilton
Have you ever been turned down by a girl who afterwards married and then been introduced to her husband? If so you'll understand how I felt when Clarence burst on me. You know the feeling. First of all, when you hear about the marriage, you say to yourself, "I wonder what he's like." Then you meet him, and think, "There must be some mistake. She can't have preferred this to me! P. G. Wodehouse
[Ransom] preferred to work as a volunteer rather than in admitted slavery: and he liked his cooking a good deal more than that of his companions. C. S. Lewis

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