Pleasure Quotes
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I'd love to be considered a post-pop artist, but I love to have five or six different styles in every painting, just for the pleasure of the eye.
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No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.
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It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me...if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me.
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When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.
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Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure.
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Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.
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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.
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A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And warming in our own, A passage back, or two, to make To times when he was young. His quaint opinions to inspect, His knowledge to unfold On what concerns our mutual mind, The literature of old.
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So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.
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What we link to pleasure and what we link to pain determines our destiny.
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I like being able to bounce between writing movies for people like Kevin Sorbo to making very personal films like orange county hardcore sinister to making a movie like Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail: The Tale of the Three Gates, which is made for the pure pleasure of getting together with creative people and making a movie. Alex Cox would be proud.
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Who pleases one against his will.
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The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.
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You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.
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"Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting."
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Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories, you're continually having to start again from scratch, but with a novel you only need one good idea every few years.
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When my work does speak to audiences, when it creates audiences around it, I feel a little less crazy because what that means is that there are folks out there who are interested in thinking about themselves and the world through a prism. The prism is a labor and there can be a pleasure in labor.
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I think that sexual pleasure and the weird color of the sky after a storm or the stream of tail lights across the bridge or the way silence can thin or thicken before music starts - all these things have to be harnessed by the political. The libidinal has to be harnessed by the political.
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A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them at his will; and in the use he makes of them he rather finds a relaxation than a dangerous charm that might corrupt him.
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[On reading:] It is almost the only inexhaustible pleasure.
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God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
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The appreciation of the connoisseur is the highest pleasure of the artiste.
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Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.
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I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters, the places of amusement, and such nights as the last I spent with you just as I was leaving for the West.
