A Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer
It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.
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It's much easier to be at peace than it is to hate somebody. It's much easier to love somebody than to fight with them.
It is so much easier to covet what one hasn't than to revel in what one has. Also, it is so much easier to be enthusiastic about what exists than about what doesn't.
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It's much easier, for example, to play a heroin addict and you're withdrawing - you tear the ceiling off - that's much easier than it is to come in and say, 'Hello.' Or, 'I love you'. When you judge it in that way, the heavy isn't as difficult.
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Blaming is so much easier than taking responsibility, because if you take responsibility … then you might be to blame.
It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.
Nice distinctions are troublesome. It is so much easier to say that a thing is black, than to discriminate the particular shade of brown, blue, or green, to which it really belongs. It is so much easier to make up your mind that your neighbour is good for nothing, than to enter into all the circumstances that would oblige you to modify that opinion.
Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.
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