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"The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need."
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"The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."
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"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."
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"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."
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"It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated."
"'s one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling."
"I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers."
"I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man."
"When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way."
"I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover."
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