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"Let's just go in and enjoy ourselves,' Yvonne had said after a long moment when the Hitchens family had silently reviewed the menu-actually of the prices not the courses-outside a restaurant on our first and only visit to Paris. I knew at once that the odds against enjoyment had shortened (or is it lengthened? I never remember)."
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"The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment."
"All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation."
"Life is delicious. Waste not one bite!"
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"The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment."
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"Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East."
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"I am sorry for those who have never had the experience of seeing the victory of a national liberation movement, and I feel cold contempt for those who jeer at it."
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