“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
Source: Atonement
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Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895). p. 364.
“Appearances can easily deceive anyone except a blind person.”
“Chance is a funny thing and it is easily mistaken for portent.”
Source: Faitheist (2012), Chapter 5, “Unholier Than Thou: Saying Goodbye to God” (p. 93)
“Most of us can easily do two things at once; what’s all but impossible is to do one thing at once.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.”
Source: Half of a Yellow Sun
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Often paraphrased as "Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IX - A Painter's Views on Painting
“Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.”
Source: City of Fallen Angels