Prefer Quotes
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![Erik Pevernagie](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629325665i/14170911._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“Some feel lucky, if they haven't got to be happy, as they don’t like their frame of mind to be unravelled and prefer to be left well enough alone. ( "C’est quand le bonheur ?" )”
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![Erik Pevernagie](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629325665i/14170911._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“When some claim demarcation and “regulation”, others fancy “deregulation”, preferring foxes guarding the henhouse or chicken yards with free chickens and free foxes. Friend or foe, hen or fox, anyone can have a go. (“This far”)”
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![Erik Pevernagie](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629325665i/14170911._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“In the architecture of their life some may display Potemkin happiness in view of hiding the dark features of their fair weather relationship, preferring to set up a window dressing of fake satisfaction rather than being rejected as emotional outcasts. ("Absence of beauty was like hell")”
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![Erik Pevernagie](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629325665i/14170911._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“Being happy is harder than being discontent. For happiness we have to roll up our sleeves and knock down houses of cards. Because of this exertion, many prefer to abide by ‘fake’ happiness.( " Happiness blowing in the wind. " )”
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![Israelmore Ayivor](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1497748668i/7023141._UX200_CR0,6,200,200_.jpg)
“To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!”
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![Glenn Gould](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1656489908i/228947._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I always assumed everybody shared my love for overcast skies. It came as a shock to find out that some people prefer sunshine.”
― Glenn Gould Variations - By Himself and His Friends
― Glenn Gould Variations - By Himself and His Friends
“I prefer to be a sad screwed stupid bitch, than a fucking liar, fake and pretender that has to put different masks per day.”
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![Jordan B. Peterson](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651741136i/282885._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“To do something, you have to VALUE something. It is a definitional issue. Because, to DO something, is to ACT OUT the proposition that the thing you are doing, the thing you are AIMING at, let's say, is PREFERABLE to the thing you have. And preferable means that you will do it.”
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![Israelmore Ayivor](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1497748668i/7023141._UX200_CR0,6,200,200_.jpg)
“Don’t accept the available as the preferable. Go extra mile with extra speed.”
― Shaping the dream
― Shaping the dream
![M.F. Moonzajer](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1366560117i/7011306.jpg)
“I prefer having sex with myself rather than with someone who wants something instead.”
― LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
― LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
![Sarah J. Maas](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1582137198i/3433047._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Well,' Lucien said, his remaining russet eye fixed on me, 'you don't look half as bad now. A relief, I suppose, since you're to live with us. Though the tunic isn't as pretty as a dress.'
Wolves ready to pounce- that's what they were, just like their friend. I was all too aware of my diction, of the very breath I took as I said, 'I'd prefer not to wear that dress.'
'And why not?' Lucien crooned.
It was Tamlin who answered for me. 'Because killing us is easier in pants.”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
Wolves ready to pounce- that's what they were, just like their friend. I was all too aware of my diction, of the very breath I took as I said, 'I'd prefer not to wear that dress.'
'And why not?' Lucien crooned.
It was Tamlin who answered for me. 'Because killing us is easier in pants.”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
![Conn Iggulden](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1235073163i/119121._UX200_CR0,51,200,200_.jpg)
“They had learned that Sorhatani expected the same sort of instant obedience as her husband. She had grown up around men of power and had married into the great khan’s family at a very young age. She knew that men prefer to follow, that it takes an effort of will to lead. She had that will.”
― Khan: Empire of Silver
― Khan: Empire of Silver
“I prefer to live 40 years of quality life than 80 years of adrenaline. My time of procrastination fits in my 40 years of quality, because I never had to complete a task in my life.”
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![Ehsan Sehgal](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1531214770i/15105695._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“I feel, enjoy and prefer the genuine click on things for the Like by the real friends, and fans even the fewer than the purchasing thousands, likes”
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