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“Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.”
“Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.”
Variant: Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.
Source: Inkheart
“Making a journey by night is more wonderful than anything in the world.”
Source: Moominpappa at Sea
“Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.”
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (1974), p. 143
“Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel?”
A similar remark was reportedly made by Pratchett in The Herald (4 October 2004): I'd rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel.
"I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist" (2008)
Context: Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.
“The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.”
“In the whole world, there was no better place than being wrapped in him.”
Source: Magic Rises
“For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.”
“writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all”
Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems
“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”
Source: Women in Love (1920), Ch. 15
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
Misattributed
Source: This is actually from Zora Neale Hurston, <i>Dust Tracks On the Road,</i> though it is widely attributed to Ms. Angelou's book, <i>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.</i>
“Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.”
Source: Of Love and Other Demons