Pleasure Quotes
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India is a place where one of the great pleasures for a foreigner is that you're constantly surprised. Everywhere you look is something that is either funny, or very moving, but there is always so much that is so unexpected.
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A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.
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Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.
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when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.
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And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
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When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they grow up into ungrateful adults. Instead, what you're going to get from me, as each of you turns sixteen, is a library of the one hundred books that gave me the most pleasure when I was a know-nothing adolescent.
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I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.
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After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.
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Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
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I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that. This pleasure was connected to the pleasure of writing.
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God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.
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I enjoy making films and some experiences are better than others. Most of the time they're great experiences... but turning up to go to work on this every day was an absolute pleasure and that comes from the top.
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Business first, then pleasure.
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I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.
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Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.
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It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.
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I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a pleasure is the whole creative thing in which we're all excavating and trying to find something.
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Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
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The pleasure is our choice.
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I thought you were supposed to be flying this thing, not pleasuring it.
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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
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When you're listening to music, you listen to it with a friend one day and it sounds one way. You listen to it with another friend the next day, and it sounds a little different. Sometimes the greatest pleasure of listening is not the music that you're listening to; it's the person that you're listening to it with.
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Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day after day, fresh beauty and growing sweetness, so as to fill every eye with pleasure and every heart with admiration?
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How did you ever happen to remember that I might be hungry? But of course you would. Will you mind very much if I run myself into serious difficulties now and again after we are married, just for the pleasure of seeing you rise to the occasion?
