“He was so damn perverse, he preferred to dream it than to make it come true.”
Janet Fitch (1955) American writer
Source: Paint it Black
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“He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is.”
Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author
Source: I Am the Messenger
“The true citizen prefers the general advantage to his advantage.”
François-Noël Babeuf (1760–1797) French political agitator and journalist of the French Revolutionary period
Le vrai Citoyen préfère l'avantage général à son avantage.
[in Gracchus Babeuf avec les Egaux, Jean-Marc Shiappa, Les éditions ouvrières, 1991, 38, 27082 2892-7]
The people and the citizens
“It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.”
Henri Michaux (1899–1984) painter, poet, writer
La Nuit des Bulgares in Plume (1938) (Used as introductory line in Jim Jarmusch's film "Dead Man".)
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Remarks of President Barack Obama To the People of Israel at Jerusalem International Convention Center in Jerusalem, Israel (21 March 2013) http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/03/21/remarks-president-barack-obama-people-israel <br class="br">2013
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
… What excellent advice it is, and how it was beaten into my generation of schoolboys... But one may tire of even the best advice, as one may tire of writing according to these precepts. Would we wish to be without the heraldic splendour and torchlight processions that are the sentences of Sir Thomas Browne? Would we wish to sacrifice the orotund, Latinate pronouncements of Samuel Johnson? Would we wish that Dickens had written in the style recommended by the brothers Fowler, who framed the rules I have quoted; what would then have happened to Seth Pecksniff, Wilkins Micawber, and Sairey Gamp, I ask you?
Writing (1990), he here quotes from The King's English (1906) by Henry Watson Fowler & Francis George Fowler
Rousas John Rushdoony (1916–2001) American theologian
Writings, The Foundations of Social Order (1968)
“A book is a good substitute for a man. Fiction, preferably.”
Kamala Surayya (1934–2009) Indian author
Kamala Suraiyya Das (Wages of Love)
Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist
Source: A Secret Affair