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• I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.

  Pete McCarthy

  Reading, Library, Study

  Pete McCarthy (2014). “McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland”, p.258, Macmillan

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• I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.

  Donald Miller

  Giving Up, Moving, Kids

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• It was much easier for him now that he was smaller to negotiate his way through his crammed shop but he still tried to swagger past the shelves like he used to in the past. The attempt looked so strange that Scipio started to mimic him behind his back. "What's the silly giggling about?" Barbarossa asked when Prosper and Renzo bust out laughing.

  Cornelia Funke

  Silly, Past, Laughing

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• Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Evil, Politics, Difficult

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Its easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Christmas, Spiritual

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• I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy , too, so far as I could. While I could not spare you pain and humiliation, I make you a gift of my own pains and humiliations, that yours might be easier to bear.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Pain, Justice, Might

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.317, Dell

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• It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Kindness, Thinking, Might

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009.

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• You can still be cool when you’re dead. In fact, it’s much easier, because you aren’t getting old and fat and losing your hair.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Hair, Facts, Losing

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• If he had to have strange powers, Aden wished they could have been more like hers. That voodoo voice would have made his life a lot easier; he could have sent certain people (cough Ozzie cough) away with no memory of him.

  Gena Showalter

  Memories, Voice, People

  Gena Showalter (2010). “Intertwined”, p.158, Harlequin

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• The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Fear, Voice, Challenges

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty”, p.55, PublicAffairs

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• This evolution towards a real responsibility for others is sometimes blocked by fear. It is easier to stay on the level of a pleasant way of life in which we keep our freedom and our distance. But that means that we stop growing and shut ourselves up in our own small concerns and pleasures.

  Jean Vanier

  Real, Distance, Mean

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.78, Paulist Press

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• I know what it’s like to be torn between a love so pure it burns you deep down in a place you didn’t know someone could touch you and between your oath and duties. Between the love of a father you’ve always known and one you know you can depend on forever versus a love that’s new and untested. But you know what I learned? It’s a lot easier to live without my father’s love than it is to live without Phoebe’s. (Urian) (Acheron didn’t speak as Urian left him alone.) That just makes you want to vomit, doesn’t it? (Jaden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Father, Forever, Want

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• Whether we realise it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favouring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Way, Realising, Opposing

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• You have such interesting thoughts. No wonder witches are ephemeral. You drive yourself crazy. You should simply do what you want without the soul-searching. It will be easier in the long run, Rachel Mariana Morgan.

  Kim Harrison

  Running, Crazy, Long

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• I know," she said, guessing my thoughts. "I know exactly how you feel." "Does it get easier?" I asked. Unlike Sydney, Olena had an answer. "Yes. But you'll never be the same.

  Richelle Mead

  Doe, Answers, Guessing

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.683, Penguin

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• I wish I could hate you," he said. His voice was light, his mouth curved in an unconcerned half smile, his eyes sick with misery. "I want to hate you. I try to hate you. It would be so much easier if I did hate you. Sometimes I do hate you and then I see you and I.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hate, Eye, Light

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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• It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak.

  Lev Grossman

  Strong, Contradiction, Weak

  Lev Grossman (2009). “The Magicians: A Novel”, p.320, Penguin

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• ...It's easier to find a way to make money at something you love than to learn to love a job that you can make money at.

  Kim Harrison

  Jobs, Way, Making Money

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• If you do not learn to hate you will never be lonely enough to love easily nor will you always be brave, although it does not grow any easier. Do not pretend to convenient beliefs, even when they are righteous; you will never be able to defend your city while shouting.

  Audre Lorde

  Lonely, Hate, Cities

  Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.63, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? -Eriond

  David Eddings

  Hate, Forgiving

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• Because people are ever willing to believe the negative over the positive. It’s easier for you to think me corrupt and evil than it is for you to see me for what I really am. No one wants to believe that some people are willing to help others out of the goodness of their hearts because they can’t stand to see someone suffer. So few people are altruistic that they can’t understand or conceive that anyone else in the world could ever put someone else’s good above their own. (Leta)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Heart, Helping Others

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• She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Way, Bears, Knows

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.145, Bantam

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• The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Cutting, Tasks

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous.

  Sarah Dessen

  Fighting, Thinking, Would Be

  Sarah Dessen (1998). “Someone Like You”, Viking Childrens Books

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• I’m staring into chocolate eyes. although my brain is clouded and I’m dizzy, I know enough to register that chocolate is the opposite of blue. I don’t want blue. Blue confuses me too much. Chocolate is straight-forward, easier to deal with.

  Simone Elkeles

  Eye, Blue, Opposites

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