Erin Morgenstern Quotes
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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Great French design is often about unexpected touches.
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Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.
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This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.
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Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.
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The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.
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When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.
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Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.
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The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
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For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
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Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.
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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.
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I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire for the daylight as for water and air. And if seeing was fire, I required the plenitude of fire, and if seeing would infect me with madness, I madly wanted that madness.
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Great witch, tough woman.
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Women on the streets want money when we meet. I take them for a little ride, chop, chop, chop.
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Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.
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One thing that the Internet has created is the sense that information is at your fingertips, when it's really only a very, very limited, specific, and slanted kind of information.
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The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.
