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“fiction always surpasses reality but reality is always richer than fiction.”
Javier Cercas (1962) Spanish writer, journalist and professor of Spanish literature
Source: Outlaws
“In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.”
René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
“Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
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.”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
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.”
Joan Aiken (1924–2004) English fiction writer
Source: The Last Slice of Rainbow and Other Stories
“Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler”
Ira Levin book Rosemary's Baby
Source: Rosemary's Baby
“The way through the world
Is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
“Traveling has less to do with seeing things than experiencing them….”
Nicholas Sparks book The Choice
Travis Parker, Chapter 8, p. 101
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)
“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”
Oscar Wilde book The Decay of Lying
The Decay of Lying (1889)
“It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”
Alfred Adler (1870–1937) Medical Doctor, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Personality Theorist
Quoted in: Phyllis Bottome, Alfred Adler: Apostle of Freedom (1939), ch. 5
Problems of Neurosis: A Book of Case Histories (1929)
“I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book Flappers and Philosophers
Source: Flappers and Philosophers
“… Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
“One sees more devils than vast hell can hold”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors”
Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
