"My pleasure was to copy, not to create."

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"My pleasure was to copy, not to create."

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"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."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Pleasure,

"My senses are alive with pleasure and joy."

Amy Leigh Mercree, American Author

Pleasure, Joy, Truth, Life

"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

Pleasure, Reading

"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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Pleasure, Joy, Sex, Emotion

"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Pleasure, Property

"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Pleasure, Happiness, Truth, Life, Inspirational

"Buying is a profound pleasure."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

Pleasure, Buying

"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

Pleasure,

"No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Pleasure, Profit

"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Pleasure, Uniqueness, Emotion, Experience

Explore more quotes by Manuel Puig

"Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader."

Thinking

"I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor."

Reading

"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."

Work

"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."

Time

"I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized."

Business

"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."

Environment

"It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied."

Movies

"What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?"

Dream

"I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing."

Movies

"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."

Movies