Than Quotes (page 241)

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• happy
• charming
• lives

Nothing is more charming than the glow of happiness amid squalor. There is a rose-tinted attic in all our lives. Victor Hugo

• words
• old
• watch

...And I watch my words from a long way off.. They are more YOURS than mine.. They climb on my old suffering like ivy... Pablo Neruda

• oddly
• more
• imported

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in. Simone de Beauvoir

• good
• you me
• personality

That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.” Eddie shook his head. “We were throwing a ball. It was my stupidity, running out there like that. Why should you have to die on account of me? It ain’t fair.” The Blue Man held out his hand. “Fairness,” he said, “does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. Mitch Albom

• fly
• honey
• dropped

A drop of honey gathers more flies than a gallon of gall Abraham Lincoln

• leaving
• full
• carried

It is better to leave a vessel unfilled, than to attempt to carry it when it is full. Lao Tzu

• honey
• friend
• fly

Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. Benjamin Franklin

• more
• practicing
• earned

The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice. Seth Godin

• change
• pain
• same

Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change. Tony Robbins

• free
• profound
• soul

The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection much more profound than himself. A 'soul' inhabits him and brings him to existence...the soul is the effect and instrument of political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body. Michel Foucault

• creator
• look
• author

When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than its creator's have looked upon a single phrase, it is irretrievably altered. It has become a book that can be read, that no longer belongs to its maker. It has acquired, in a sense, free will. It will make its journey through the world and there is no longer anything the author can do about it. Even he, as he looks at its sentences, reads them differently now that they can be read by... Salman Rushdie

• hell
• impossible
• impossibility

A tolerable hell is better than an impossible heaven. Ben Okri

• touching
• old memories
• saying

The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die. Stephen King

• english
• design
• words

Skaz is a rather appealing Russian word (suggesting "jazz" and "scat", as in "scat-singing", to the English ear) used to designate a type of first-person narration that has the characteristics of the spoken rather than the written word. David Lodge

• pride
• objective
• anybody

It's precisely their diseases that people pride themselves on, and I do-more perhaps than anybody else. Let's not argue; my objection was absurd. But that aside, I am firmly convinced that not only excess of consciousness, but any consciousness at all is a disease. Fyodor Dostoevsky