Harder Quotes - Page 30

• Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.

  Mortimer Adler

  Literature, Taught, Easier

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder.

  Cornelia Funke

  Dying, Killing, Easy

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• Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.

  Ann Brashares

  Life, Healing, Pieces

  Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.112, Penguin

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• I think that if we can't go back, then we should try even harder to go forward. And I do want to go forward, to a place where loving someone because they have a gentle smile and a friendly hello is as easy as it once was.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Thinking, Loving Someone, Trying

  Walter Dean Myers (2009). “Riot”, p.135, Carolrhoda Lab ™

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• Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  People, Life Is, Hard

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• I can't get it out," she said. "Just pull at it." "It hurts. It's throbbing." "Pull harder." "I can't! It's truly stuck. I need something to make it slippery. Do you have some sort of lubricant nearby?" "No." "Not anything?" "Much as it may surprise you, we've never needed lubricant in the library before now.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Hurt, Library, Needs

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• It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

  Aleister Crowley

  World, Stuff, Environment

  Aleister Crowley (2015). “Moonchild”, p.211, Booklassic

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• The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)

  Don DeLillo

  Saws

  Don DeLillo (2010). “Point Omega”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• Hey!" I turned, crossing my arms and glaring. "I was talking to him!" Tybalt eyed me with amusement, which just made me glare harder. "No, you were inciting him to stab you with a toothpick. Again, the difference is small, but I think it matters.

  Mira Grant

  Thinking, Talking, Differences

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• Now you are in the true world, and a great deal more is required of you. Here you must befriend real wolves, and lure real birds down from the sky. Here you must endure real people around you, and we are not uniformly kind; we are damaged and impulsive, each in our own way. It is harder. It is not safe. But it is what you were born to.

  Margo Lanagan

  Real, Sky, People

  Margo Lanagan (2009). “Tender Morsels”, p.400, Random House

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• If I was getting harder, it was in response to the world around me.

  Charlaine Harris

  World, Response, Ifs

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.112, Penguin

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• Kayso, it turns out that driving an actual car is way harder than it is in 'Grand Theft Auto: Zombie Hooker Smackdown.

  Christopher Moore

  Car, Zombie, Way

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• Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in the world, do good to society, without shutting yourself up in a monastery at other people's expense, and without expecting a reward up aloft for it--you'll find that a bit harder.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Father, People, Heaven

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.208, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• You are incredibly wise. (Kat) Only when it comes to other people. It’s easy to see how to fix their lives. It’s much harder to see the cracks in your own house. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Wise, People, House

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.296, Macmillan

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• We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.

  Holly Black

  Liars, Thinking, Trying

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even, I suddenly remembered, contained no staples. Well, strike that line of defense.

  Charlaine Harris

  Crazy, Men, Battle

  Charlaine Harris (2016). “Real Murders”, p.105, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• What do you miss about being alive?" The sound of my mom singing, a little off-key. The way my dad went to all my swim meets and I could hear his whistle when my head was underwater, even if he did yell at me afterward for not trying harder. I miss going to the library. I miss the smell of clothes fresh out of the dryer. I miss diving off the highest board and nailing the landing. I miss waffles" - p. 272.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mom, Dad, Smell

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• Here’s the life lesson I’ve learned, Fifi: Some people are born to play the hero, and some are born to play the bad guy. Fighting your destiny only makes life harder than it needs to be. Besides, people remember the villain long after they’ve forgotten the hero.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Life Lesson, Hero, Fighting

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2003). “Breathing Room”, Avon

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• I tried. I tried to burn that memory of my regret. But I wasn’t dead yet, I was just on my way to dying, and it’s harder to burn memories when you’ve still got life left. When you’re alive you have to learn how to live with things like regret.

  Christopher Barzak

  Life, Memories, Regret

  Christopher Barzak (2007). “One For Sorrow”, p.69, Bantam

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• Giving advice was a lot harder than following it.

  Richelle Mead

  Giving, Advice, Following

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.160, Penguin

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• Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them.

  Holly Black

  Love, Hurt, Thinking

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• It's harder to appreciate what you don't have to look hard to find.

  Laura Dave

  Appreciate, Looks, Hard

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• In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of widows and children, from prostitutes, family friends, travelers, and adulterous wives. Women said "I love you" without his ever speaking. "The more you love someone," he came to think, "the harder it is to tell them." It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say "I love you".

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Love You, Past

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• Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Clever, Stupid

  "Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 2, 1932.

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• I’ve worked with volunteers before,” he began. “It’s important not to… not to treat them like servants. We may feel that they are laboring to obtain a heavenly reward, and should therefore work harder than they would for money; but they don’t necessarily take that attitude. They feel they’re working for nothing, and doing a great kindness to us thereby; and if we seem ungrateful they will work slowly and make mistakes. It will be best to rule them with a light touch.

  Ken Follett

  Kindness, Attitude, Mistake

  Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.395, Penguin

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