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If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.
He bit the inside of his cheek, Death purring wildy. The pleasure of her touch, even one so innocent, rocked him to the core.
He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.
I hope people enjoy what I do. That would make me happy because I'd be bringing others pleasure while doing something I like.
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.
We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.
When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.
I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.
I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.
For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.
Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.
One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.
The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.
Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.
Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.
For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.
What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive. [Lat., Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.]
I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure of the reader.
The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.
She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?
Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.
I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out.
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.
Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not a compliment.
A novel should tell a story, be a pleasure to read, and at the same time it should be thought-provoking, even a bit instructive.
It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top of guitar riffs.
for real pleasure a pleasure resort should have no one in it but its legitimate inhabitants, oneself, and perhaps one's friends.
People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.
Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.
The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.
The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.
Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.
Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?
No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.
The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have done.
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.