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• love is...you get confused and you do stuff you don't mean to do-and you just-you hate yourself and sometimes you don't even want to love the person you do because it would be so much easier if you didn't.But you just-you just do.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Hate, Confused, Mean

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “The Unwritten Rule”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Hurt, Pain, Cutting

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• In that moment she learnt one of the greatest secrets of life: It is often easier to fight for others than it is for yourself.

  David Clement-Davies

  Fighting, Secret, Moments

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• Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

  Samuel Johnson

  Cutting, Evil, Wickedness

  Dr. Samuel Johnson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Johnson (Illustrated)”, p.7965, Delphi Classics

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• Stupid deer," I said, embarrassed about being startled. "We need a ladder." "I think they're easier to shoot with a rifle." "I'm not talking about the deer," I said, hitting Milo on the back of his shoulder. "We need a ladder to look over the wall." "Or a catapult," Milo said seriously.

  Obert Skye

  Wall, Stupid, Thinking

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• Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized and can only attract their like. How I would like to lead you to brave, stalwart friends who would protect you and play games with dice and teach you delightful songs that have no sad endings. If you would only leave cages locked and turn away from unloved Wyverns, you could stay Heartless.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Love, Song, Lonely

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.124, Macmillan

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• Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.

  Alan Brennert

  Pot, Cannibal

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• Sharing revelations is easier when it doesn't matter.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Matter, Revelations

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.399, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's easier to crush a dream than realize one, forming a bond is infinitely more difficult than breaking one

  Ryohgo Narita

  Crush, Dream, Realizing

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• It's easier to believe in aliens than in gods.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Aliens

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• In life, the hardest decisions often have to be made more than once. But each time, it gets easier.

  Matthew J. Kirby

  Decision, Made, Hardest

  Matthew J. Kirby (2011). “Icefall”, p.175, Scholastic Inc.

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• Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.

  Holly Black

  Opportunity, Feel Good, Decision

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• And... as long as they need me, it's easier to forget that I am alone.

  Sarah MacLean

  Long, Needs, Forget

  Sarah MacLean (2012). “Ten Ways to be Adored When Landing a Lord: Number 2 in series”, p.166, Hachette UK

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• Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather.

  Tamora Pierce

  Dog, Heart, Love Is

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.367, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dancing, Tree, Done

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• Opening my door to Dillon Ruddick, my bulding super. I handed him a cup of coffee. "Sorry about the blood." "What was it this time?" No one reported gunfire." "I hit a guy in the face with a hair dryer." "Whoa." Dillon said. "It wasn't my fault," I told him. "Maybe we should lay down some linoleum here. It would make things easier for clean up.

  Janet Evanovich

  Sorry, Coffee, Hair

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Smokin' Seventeen”, p.118, Hachette UK

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• Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? why do we feel we need to disconnect in order to connect? If I wrote "Dear Sofia" or "Dear Boomer" or "Dear Lily's Great-Aunt" at the top of this postcard, wouldn't that change the words that followed? Of course it would. But the question is: When I wrote "Dear Lily," was that just a version of "Dear Myself"? I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too

  David Levithan

  Aunt, Order, Needs

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• Take "no" as an encouragement to redouble his efforts, so it was easier to say "yes" right away.

  Steig Larsson

  Encouragement, Effort

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• This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.

  Dante Alighieri

  Mountain, Ascent, Higher

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• This would be so much easier if they actually issued black hoods.

  Rachel Vincent

  Black, Would Be, Hood

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Reaper”, p.47, Harlequin

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• But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more beautiful. The story made us different characters than we would have been if we had skipped the story and showed up at the ending an easier way.

  Donald Miller

  Beautiful, Pain, Character

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• As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Quality, Aversion

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.20, SIU Press

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• One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate.

  Tom Robbins

  Violence, Rage, Craziness

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.225, Bantam

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• I want a tutor,” Layla said. “It would make doing homework so much easier.” “Me too,” said Kaitlyn. “If Layla gets one, I get one.” “No daughter of mine will ever have a tutor,” Dad said. “What if we’re failing a course?” asked Layla. His graying eyebrows drew together. “If you fail a single course, young lady, we will pull you out of school and get you a job scrubbing toilets for the rest of your life.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Daughter, Jobs, Dad

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• Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Growing Up, Years

  Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.267, Random House

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