Than Quotes (page 449)

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• time
• book
• reality

A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. Tom Robbins

• competition
• job
• government

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers. Thomas Sowell

• him
• occurred
• occurs

Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing. Patricia Highsmith

• wonderful
• poetry
• touching

The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• lies
• other
• lying

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• love
• music
• decision

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music. Kingsley Amis

• more
• necessary
• rebellion

Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion. Georges Bataille

• time
• people
• dead

Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them-especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all. J. D. Salinger

• personal
• she
• romantic him

She had influenced him more than any person he had ever known. And always in this way coming before him without his wishing it, cool, ladylike, critical; or ravishing, romantic.. Virginia Woolf

• movie
• annoying
• thanks

Ah, hi. It’s Carter. I wonder if you might want to go out to dinner, or maybe the movies. Maybe you like plays better than movies. I should’ve looked up what might be available before I called. I didn’t think of it. Or we could just have coffee again if you want to do that. Or… I’m not articulate on these things. I can’t use a tape recorder either. And why would you care? If you’re at all interested in any of the above, please feel free to call me. Thanks. Um. Good-bye.” “Damn you, Carter... Nora Roberts

• famous
• rich
• nice

After all, it was nice to be loved than to be rich and admired and famous. L. M. Montgomery

• change
• people
• real

No man can sincerely resolve to apply to his daily life the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth without sensing a change in his own nature. The phrase, 'born again', has a deeper significance than many people attach to it. This changed feeling may be indescribable, but it is real. David O. McKay

• kids
• busy
• world

Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dangerous than letting old farts sit in the sun. They might be thinking. Same thing with kids. Keep 'em busy or they might start thinking. Frank McCourt

• fun
• dead
• hell

It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead. Joe Strummer

• she
• saying
• purpose

...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this? Evelyn Waugh