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"The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need."
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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
"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."
"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?"
"Let us have Wine and Women Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after."
"The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."
"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."
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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."
"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."
"'s one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling."
"I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats."
"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."
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