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Better Quotes by Nicole Krauss
- Better to try and fail than not to try at all
- Now that mine is almost over, I can say that the one thing that struck me most about life is the capacity for change. One…
- I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better…
- Bruno, my old faithful. I haven't sufficiently described him. Is it enough to say he is indescribable? No. Better to try and fail than not…
- The truth was I'd given up waiting long ago. The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives…
- ("Let's stand under a tree," she said. "Why?" "Because it's nicer." "Maybe you should sit on a chair, and I'll stand above you, like they…
- Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape.…
- He held my hand and told me a story about when he was six and threw a rock at a kid's head who was bullying…
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — John James Audubon
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius