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"Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free."
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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?"

"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..."

"Great sex is a natural drug."

"And not wretched sausages half full of bread and soya bean either, but real meaty, spicy ones, fat and piping hot and burst and just the tiniest bit burnt."
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"I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home."

"I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever."

"I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk."

"The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed."

"On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach."
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