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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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"A dessert to a deserter in the desert burst, "You trust your thirst. And you are too hot! You scream for ice cream. And believe it or not, I may not be your first. But I might be your lust! Give it a shot..."
"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?"
"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern 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."
"Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable."
"Writing is self-pleasure."
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"From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
"I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."
"An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight."
"When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."
"Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone."
"Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death."
"Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography."
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