Than Quotes (page 105)

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• end
• love
• moments

After many trials the God and his love end happily—tho' not all remember this conclusion—which is less memorable than the moment when everything was lost. Happy endings are all alike; disasters may be unique. John Crowley

• art
• expectation
• world

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery. Stephen King

• saying
• say
• truthfulness

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe. Henry David Thoreau

• moments
• thinking
• fighting

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. Ayn Rand

• memories
• may
• memorial

The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is. Robert Smithson

• wishes
• true
• manly

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,that he also beleives to be true. Demosthenes

• happy
• picture
• moments

I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so. Jacques-Henri Lartigue

• good
• fun
• world

…there’s nothing in the world more fun than doing something you’re good at. Clive Barker

• little
• perfect
• death

Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry for the rest of her life: that people were essentially not evil, that perfection was death, that life was better than order and a little chaos good for the soul. Most important, this life was all. Unfortunately, she forgot these things, and had to remember them the hard way. Marilyn French

• style
• styling
• betterment

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it. Charles Bukowski

• happy
• today
• world

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. Bertrand Russell

• success
• failure
• rather

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate. George Burns

• walking
• equality
• peace

Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the streets, by reducing himself to a seeing eye, he was able to escape the obligation to think, and this, more than anything else, brought him a measure of peace, a salutary emptiness within...By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal and it no longer mattered where he was. On his best walks he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally was all he ever... Paul Auster

• mistake
• small
• thoughts

With small nose, gross thighs, and those back-bent smoke-dyed fingers, he obliged me with this explanation, and he thought to have more effect on me than he really ever could have. When I didn't argue he was satisfied that he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake. Saul Bellow

• moving
• night
• march

Then came the march past the victims. The two men were no longer alive. Their tongues were hanging out, swollen and bluish. But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing... And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes. And we were forced to look at him at close range. He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was stillred, his eyes not yet extinguished. Behind me, I heard the same man... Elie Wiesel