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They entrenched themselves in their preferences, their beliefs, their prejudices, and closed ranks against everything that was different Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Andre Gide quote: "I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be..."
I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent. Andre Gide
...it was his misfortune that most of the men he knew preferred immaculate linen and their clubs to nakedness and the jungle. It was, of course, difficult to understand, yet it was very evident that they did. Edgar Rice Burroughs
How very American it was to assume that these unsmiling Chinese would be pleased if one showed a preference for their native implements...How very American it was to feel somehow guilty unless one struggled over rice noodles and lumps of meat with things that looked like enlarged knitting needles. Tom Wolfe
Ursula wondered if it was not preferable to lie down once and for all in her grave and let them throw the earth over her, and she asked God, without fear, if He really believe that people were made of iron in order to bear so many troubles and mortifications. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all BEGIN freely--a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement. In nine cases out of ten a women had better show MORE affection than she feels. Bingley likes your sister undoubtedly; but he may never do more than like her, if she does not help him on. Jane Austen
If ever I hear again of any lapse from a proper standard of infantile decorum, I shall ask for your transference to a Sub-Centre–preferably to Iceland. Good morning. Aldous Huxley
We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in hostile territory. Paulo Coelho
I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect Fernando Pessoa
Mae West quote: "Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a..."
Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present Mae West
All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts. Arthur Conan Doyle
Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint: Things least to be believed are most preferred. All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint, Are readily believed if once put down in print John Clare
Dr Sass…maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain of the Lord, and that it was the devil who invented a third dimension. Thus are the words ‘straight’, ‘square’, and ‘flat’ the words of noblemen, but the apple was an orb, and the sin of our first parents, the attempt at getting around God. I myself much prefer the art of painting to sculpture Isak Dinesen
Truman Capote quote: "My preferred pastimes are conversation, reading, travel and..."
My preferred pastimes are conversation, reading, travel and writing, in that order. Truman Capote
He also discovered that he was bitter and full of resentment, that he oozed resentment, and that he might easily kill someone, anyone, if it would provide a respite from the loneliness and rain and cold of Madrid, but this was a discovery that he preferred to conceal. Roberto Bolano

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