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• I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

  Elbert Hubbard
  American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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• I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

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  Bobby Fischer
  American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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• I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
  

  Walt Disney
  American producer (1901 - 1966)
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• I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

  Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
  American fighter pilot in WW I (1890 - 1973)
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• I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

  Gerry Spence
   
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• I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.

  Lord George Byron
  English poet (1788 - 1824)
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• I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
  

  Harry S. Truman
  American president (1884 - 1972)
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• I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

  Robert Green Ingersoll
  American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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• I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

  Phaedrus

  Plato
  Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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• I would rather not tell you here things which every German has at heart.

  Albert Speer
  German architect and Minister of Armaments during WWII (1905 - 1981)
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• I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  American president (1890 - 1969)
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• I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.

  Anne McCaffrey
  American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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• I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

  John Keats
  English poet (1795 - 1821)
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• I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.

  Amy Tan
  American author (1952 - )
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• I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

  Baruch Spinoza
  Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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• I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start.

  Anne McCaffrey
  American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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• I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.

  Madonna
  American musician, singer and actress (1958 - )
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• I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

  Hunter S. Thompson
  American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• old-fashioned
• allegorical
• imagination
• publishing
• electronic
• readership

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