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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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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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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It is a great pleasure to live with positive hope that the most deprived will gain access into the Kingdom of God.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle of all sorts of gourmands of every category, whilst their faces beam with delight and they themselves dance with pleasure.
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As far as criticism, I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for 'Rolling Stone' for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.
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We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.
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I feel like the traditional patron system meant that you would kiss the ass of one rich person and then hide all of the financial goings-on of your work, and you could pretend you were pure.
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The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.
