"We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration"
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"Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule."
"It's so much easier just to eat and work out than not eat and work out like crazy."
"A lot of people will think I changed the book: ‘so you’re the tiger instead, you’re the tiger who ate the cook.’ That’d be totally expository, like in the book, ‘you’re the tiger’ and then it stops there. That seems to have the magic touch. I bring everything together. That’s why he made up the story, the whole thing becomes internalized. That might be the magic, but all I did is not so much interpreted, but try my best to keep everybody still staying in the movie. And I was like, ‘God, it’s so hard to do.’ I make movies for a long time. It doesn't get easier."
"sorrow is easier than guilt."
"I make friends faster and easier than journalists."
"It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich."
"When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier."
"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."
"To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth."
"Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women."
"This would be so much easier if they actually issued black hoods."
"But when you kill someone you love, the hard part is never over. It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you've done."
"The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy. 'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?"
"It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg."
"Friends are like money, easier made than kept."
"It will be easier for you to bring him around to where you want him more by gentleness and patience than by being too uncompromising."
"Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing."
"It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman."
"[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks."