“The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.”
Source: Choke
“The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.”
Source: Choke
“fiction always surpasses reality but reality is always richer than fiction.”
Source: Outlaws
“In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.”
“Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.”
Song lyrics, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964), My Back Pages
Variant: I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.
From the back pages
“Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.”
Source: The Fall of the Roman Republic: Six Lives
“The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.”
Variant: Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks."
-Don Vito Corleone
Source: The Godfather
“Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.”
Source: The Last Slice of Rainbow and Other Stories
“Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler”
Source: Rosemary's Baby
“The way through the world
Is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.”
“Traveling has less to do with seeing things than experiencing them….”
Travis Parker, Chapter 8, p. 101
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)
“It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”
Quoted in: Phyllis Bottome, Alfred Adler: Apostle of Freedom (1939), ch. 5
Problems of Neurosis: A Book of Case Histories (1929)
“There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West