Quotes with prefer

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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Philip Roth I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Charles Baudelaire I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Bayazid Bastami I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.
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  • Ralph B. Perry I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
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  • Antonio Tabucchi I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Jean Rostand I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Louise Erdrich I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Assata Shakur I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. Because when people know your whole history, they have a tendency to relate to you differently and maybe put you up on a pedestal. I want people to just be normal with me. I just want to live my life.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Jean Rostand I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • A. N. Wilson I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Armistead Maupin I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Aaron Spelling I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Sophocles I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Bruno Mars I've definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it's a little more raw.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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