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“Rock is much more malleable than ideas.”
Book 6: "Widow Kang", Ch. 3
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)
“It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.”
Rumsfeld's Rules" January 12, 1974 http://library.villanova.edu/vbl/bweb/rumsfeldsrules.pdf
1970s
“There is nothing more beautiful than a beautiful woman.”
Agnelli: The Rules of the Game, Vanity Fair (1991)
“In America nothing dies easier than tradition.”
"A Little Bones Trouble," The New York Times (1991-05-14)
“It was more than sad, the eternal unteachability of youth.”
Part 3, Chapter 16 (p. 208)
Nifft the Lean (1982)
“There's so much more to get than wronged.”
Lyrics, Light Grenades (2006)
“It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Variant: It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
“There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.”
Act V, sc. 1.
The Drummer (1716)
“Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.”
“Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.”
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“No love is greater than that of a father for His son.”
Source: Angels & Demons
“It's better to burn out than to fade away.”
Quoted by Cobain in his suicide note, this is from the song My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) by Neil Young, from his album Rust Never Sleeps (1979)
Misattributed
Variant: It's better to burn out than fade away.
“Your truths are worse than your lies.”
Source: Succubus Shadows
“The real world is much smaller than the imaginary”