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"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."
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"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."
Work
"Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film."
Life
"There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating."
Nothing
"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'"
Motivational
"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."
Pleasure
"Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table."
Journalism
"Self-plagiarism is style."
Self
"The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
Poor
"I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks."
Public
"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."
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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."
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"Drink the nectar of love from the flowers of life."
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"Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it."
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"There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy."
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"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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"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."
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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."
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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
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"A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity."
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"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."
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