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"The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need."
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"My senses are alive with pleasure and joy."
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"Pleasure, like the sparrow, never sits on any one branch too long."
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"Great sex is a natural drug."
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"Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out."
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"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."
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"Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
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"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."
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"Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable."
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"Not town can live peacefully, whatever its laws," Plato wrote, "when its citizens ... do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love."But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favorite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?"
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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
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"But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny."
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"And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book."
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"It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?"
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"The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need."
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"It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council."
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"I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself."
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"The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life."
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"I hate that word dysfunction."
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"It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die."
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"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."
Life
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