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.
Malorie Blackman
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
Xenophon
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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.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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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.
Rachel Cusk
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This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.
Earl Derr Biggers
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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.
G. Willow Wilson
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The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
Saint Bernard
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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.
Takeshi Kitano
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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.
K. A. Applegate
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Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.
Yehuda Amichai
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The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
Patricia Meyer Spacks
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For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.
Oprah Winfrey
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Maurice Blanchot
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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.
Mathieu Kerekou
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No one was talking about price decreases, but that does happen in the industry to keep medicine affordable.
Heather Bresch
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I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.
Yuna
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
Oscar Wilde
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Judaism, Christianity, and I'm sure other religions also, are having to deal with the fact that they may or may not have lived up at all times to the injunctions of their own mystical center. For instance, when I went to Sunday school, I remember learning more about Jewish history than about God. So, once again, that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the Jewish religion, it just means that sometimes people are not fed the mystical food - the spiritual food - of their own religious background.
Marianne Williamson
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The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.
Erin Morgenstern