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Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than Frankenstein's monster, who… — David Sedaris
Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic… — Harper Lee
There are many reasons for violence. This is just something that sometimes happens. We'd see it in treatment centers - the child who'd suffered something… — Stephen Dobyns
The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still… — Andy Warhol
[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and… — Michael Sandel
I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality. — Jean Cocteau
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire
Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to… — Dean Koontz
I love this quote when Valerian the King of the Nymphs says to his mate Shaye; "I am Valerian, leader of the nymphs. You may… — Gena Showalter
It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow… — Margaret Mitchell
You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one… — Ezra Pound
He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the… — Victor Hugo
He groaned and I saw his face. "Curran!" I would've preferred a homicidal lunatic. Oh, wait... — Ilona Andrews
Any messages for me?" Usually I got one or two, but mostly people who wanted my help preferred to talk in person. "Yes. Hold on."… — Ilona Andrews
Leandros's favorite place had turned out not to be vegetarian, but vegan, which was for people who preferred their suicide slow. — Rob Thurman
Who is Hunter Becker?" "Becker the Gory? Lighthouse Keepers? Boston?" "I would've preferred Becker the Easiley Surrendering or Becker the Quite Reasonable, but beyond that… — Ilona Andrews
Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more… — E. O. Wilson
The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them were… — Terry Pratchett
She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for,… — Louisa May Alcott
I like fish," chirruped Tunstell. "Really, Mr. Tunstell? What is your preferred breed?" "Well"--Tunstell hesitated--"you know, the um, ones that"--he made a swooping motion with… — Gail Carriger
One open, one closed. It was no wonder that the first image that came to mind when I thought of either of my sisters was… — Sarah Dessen
I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t… — Haruki Murakami
there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.… — Charles Bukowski
Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be… — John Green
What are you listening to?" "I picked up a DVD for Luke while I was out. Something with Mozart and sock puppets." A grin rose… — Lisa Kleypas

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