“Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.”
Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer
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“Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less”
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Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Variant: We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.
Source: From a letter to William Packard from 1985 (published in Reach for the Sun - the 3rd volume of Bukowski correspondence)
Context: Sex, love, duty, God, family are not to be bargained with against happiness, and we don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
