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"My pleasure was to copy, not to create."
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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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"Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing."
"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."
"If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious."
"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."
"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution."
"I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones."
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