Than Quotes (page 372)

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• new
• change
• brave

Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world. Michael Ondaatje

• anxiety
• diminishes
• actionable

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. Walter Anderson

• thousand
• truthfulness
• illusions

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. Anton Chekhov

• purpose
• waste
• common

Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum Robert M. Pirsig

• single
• kiss
• she

You understood that there was no better thing in the world than to be kissed in the way she was kissing you, that this was without argument the single most important justification for being alive. Paul Auster

• water
• culture
• different

the fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity David Hume

• work
• knowledge
• soul

The soul is superior to its knowledge; wiser than any of its works. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• memories
• memorial
• memory

I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots. Edmund White

• angel
• heaven
• it gets better

Heaven with my angel. It doesn't get any better than this. Sylvia Day

• perhaps
• imports
• lively

Perhaps, Herr Ditzen, it is less important where one lives than how one lives. Erik Larson

• cost
• sterilization
• nothing

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance. Winston Churchill

• dark
• vision
• eyes

Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. Margaret Atwood

• eating
• year
• requires

to arrive at this flourishing condition had required years. He had undergone everything, in the shape of privation; he had done everything, except get into debt. Rather than borrow, he did not eat. Victor Hugo

• world
• sick
• lies

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies, - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do. Joseph Conrad

• engagement
• giving
• world

The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being Richard Ford