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"A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke."
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"Joy is not a substitute for sex, sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy."
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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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"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."
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"Pleasure, like the sparrow, never sits on any one branch too long."
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"Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all."
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"Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure."
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"Let us have wine and woman mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda-water the day after."
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"The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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"The Chinese food arrives. Delicious saliva fills his mouth. He really hasn't had any since Texas. He loves this food that contains no disgusting proofs of slain animals, a bloody slab of cow haunch, a hen's sinewy skeleton; these ghosts have been minced and destroyed and painlessly merged with the shapes of insensate vegetables, plump green bodies that invite his appetite's innocent gusto. Candy."
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"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."
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"A man's only as old as the woman he feels."
Man
"Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does."
Mind
"The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths."
Time
"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
Art
"I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up."
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"Humor is reason gone mad."
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"Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough."
People
"Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member."
Care
"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
Power
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members."
People
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