“I still feel that we should act with restraint. It’s much easier not to do than to undo.”

— Jack Vance

Section 12 (p. 218)
Short fiction, Rumfuddle (1973)

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American mystery and speculative fiction writer 1916–2013

Richard Cecil (clergyman) (1748–1810) British Evangelical Anglican priest and social reformer

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 4.

“It is so much easier not to do things than to do them that you would do anything is totally remarkable.”

John Mulaney (1982) American actor and comedian

New in Town (2012)

“So much easier is it to do many things than to do one thing for a long time continuously.”
Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.

Quintilian (35–96) ancient Roman rhetor

Book I, Chapter XII, 7; translation by H. E. Butler
De Institutione Oratoria (c. 95 AD)

“The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.”

Kate DiCamillo The Magician's Elephant

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“I believe that we think much more with the instruments provided by our culture than we do with our bodies, and hence the much greater diversity of thought in the world. Thinking is a form of feeling; feeling is a form of thinking.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

"Susan Sontag: The Rolling Stone Interview" with Jonathan Cott (1978; published 4 October 1979)
Context: One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feeling... which is really the basis of all anti-intellectual views: the heart and the head, thinking and feeling, fantasy and judgment. We have more or less the same bodies, but very different kinds of thoughts. I believe that we think much more with the instruments provided by our culture than we do with our bodies, and hence the much greater diversity of thought in the world. Thinking is a form of feeling; feeling is a form of thinking.

“It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.”

George Soros (1930) Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

“when something is right, it will feel easier and much more effortless”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

“if we could act a little more according to common sense, and a good deal less according to fashion, we should find many things work easier;”

Anna Sewell book Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.”

Hannah Arendt book The Human Condition

The Human Condition (1958).

“The act of writing the book was painful at times, but it was easier than talking to someone.”

Piper Laurie (1932) actress

About writing her memoir. Theodore P. Mahne, "Actress Piper Laurie charms audience, interviewer at Tennessee Williams Festival" (25 March 2012), Times-Picayune at nola.com (New OrleansNet) http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2012/03/actress_piper_laurie_charms_au.html

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