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  • Samuel Johnson 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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  • Don Marquis I would rather start a family than finish one.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Edward Dahlberg I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • George Orwell I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • John Keats I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • William Somerset Maugham I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Simone Weil I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Audre Lorde I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Douglas Adams I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Robert H. Schuller I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Mother Teresa I'd rather bathe lepers than be interviewed by the press.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • George Burns I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Bryce Harper I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Ken Kesey I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
    Ken Kesey
    American writer (1935 - 2001)
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  • G. Kaufman I'd rather be a poor winner than any kind of loser.
    G. Kaufman
     
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  • Margaret Drabble I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Mick Jagger I'd rather be dead than singing ''Satisfaction'' when I'm forty-five.
    Mick Jagger
    English singer-songwriter, composer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Kurt Cobain I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
    Kurt Cobain
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1967 - 1994)
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  • Victor Hugo I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Henry Clay I'd rather be right than President.
    Henry Clay
    American lawyer, planter, and statesman (1777 - 1852)
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