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"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."
"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
"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."
"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a 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?"
"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."
"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."
"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."
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"Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings."
"One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister."
"In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius."
"And it says something about our level of disassociation, that we can provoke these wars abroad but we're not allowed to see people get killed as a result."
"So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since."
"Because there is actually something very interesting in Goodfellas, how the style of the film changes as time goes by and based on the mental state of the protagonist."
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