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• And then when she takes him through the whole wine tasting process, finishing with a long, languid taste that she really enjoyed “she opened her eyes and saw Nick staring at her. “I feel like I need a cigarette and a shower after watching that.

  Julie James

  Wine, Eye, Long

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• I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesn’t feel too upset about the prospect of a weekend spent seeing no one, and reading good books on the couch. It wasn’t like I was a people hater or anything. I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. I always thought I would be happy without them.

  Jim Butcher

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• Like pleasure, beauty should be savored and enjoyed

  P. C. Cast

  Pleasure, Should

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• It has to be admitted that, in a sneaking way, although he hated the discomfort of seasickness, once he was over it, he enjoyed the attention and sympathy that it created among attractive young women like Evanlyn and Alyss. And he liked the fact that Will tended to walk on eggshells around him when the problem was mentioned. Keeping Will off balance was always desirable. ~Halt

  John Flanagan

  Balance, Attention, Way

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• For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison. Though we were cut off from the world and all the trouble we enjoyed stirring up out there, we were also cut off from the demands and expectations that had driven us crazy. What could be expected of us now that we were stowed away in a loony bin?

  Susanna Kaysen

  Crazy, Cutting, Expectations

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.94, Vintage

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• I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them.

  Walter Farley

  Horse, Believe, Book

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• We were walking toward the fountain, the epicenter of activity, when an older couple stopped and openly observed us. Robert enjoyed being noticed, and he affectionately squeezed my hand. "oh, take their picture," said the woman to her bemused husband, "I think they're artists." "Oh, go on," he shrugged. "They're just kids.

  Patti Smith

  Couple, Husband, Kids

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.47, A&C Black

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• And then they would watch her closely as the dark, coagulated masses took form before her eyes, became flesh and bone, became gradually human. For all their show of reluctance, she had a sense that they enjoyed introducing her to these horrors, as seducers took pleasure in the corruption of innocence.

  Philip Sington

  Eye, Dark, Watches

  Philip Sington (2011). “The Einstein Girl”, p.7, Random House

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• A month ago there was nothing on Earth I missed, enjoyed, or longed for. I knew I could lose everything and not feel anything, and I rested easy in that knowledge. But I'm growing tired of easy things.

  Isaac Marion

  Tired, Growing, Earth

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far too common for a discussion of art. Why should art have a purpose and a use? Art shouldn't be concerned with purpose and reason and need, they say. These are improper. But from the very beginning, it seems to me, stories have indeed been meant to be enjoyed, to appeal to that part of us which enjoys good form and good shape and good sound.

  Chinua Achebe

  Art, Thinking, People

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “There Was a Country: A Memoir”, p.49, Penguin

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• The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves. I am one of those who remembers those places regardless of distance or time.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Children, Distance

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• It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more protein and calories than settled people, and took in five times as much viatmin C as the average person today.

  Bill Bryson

  Average, People, Typical

  Bill Bryson (2010). “At Home: A Short History of Private Life”, p.66, Random House

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• If you were closer, I'd slap you," she said. "Let me help," I replied, and stepped closer. She promptly slapped me, which surprised me only a little. We glared at each other in the near dark, and then she looked away. "I'm sorry I slapped you," she said. "That's all right. I quite enjoyed it.

  Kenneth Oppel

  Sorry, Dark, Littles

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• Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed—or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet.

  Patricia Briggs

  Talking, Lists, Public Speaking

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.124, Penguin

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• You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.

  John Berger

  Vanity, Mirrors, Hands

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• Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?

  Jack Finney

  Book, Envy, Feelings

  Jack Finney (2014). “Time and Again”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• The stars were out in full, the crickets a little quieter. He had enjoyed talking to Allie and wondered what she'd thought about his life, hoping it would somehow make a difference, if it could.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Stars, Talking, Differences

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• I'd once been fascinated by his legend - all the stories I'd heard before I met him. Now I can feel that same sense of fascination returning. I picture his face, so beautiful even after pain and torture and grief, his blue eyes bright and sincere. I'm ashamed to admit that I enjoyed my brief time with him in his prison cell. His voice can make me forget about all the details running through my mind, bringing with it emotions of desire, or fear instead, sometimes even anger, but always triggering something. Something that wasn't there before.

  Marie Lu

  Beautiful, Running, Pain

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• I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do — so much have I enjoyed it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Writing, Wish

  Letter to Arthur Greeves on Edmund Spenser on March 07, 1916. "The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 1: Family Letters, 1905-1931". Book edited by Walter Hooper, p. 170, 2004.

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• Pretty much everyone hates high school. It's a measure of your humanity, I suspect. If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or a cheerleader. Or possibly both. Those things aren't mutually exclusive, you know. I've tried to block out the memory of my high school years, but no matter how hard you try, it's always with you, like an unwanted hitchhiker. Or herpes. I assume.

  Jenny Lawson

  Memories, Hate, Block

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.43, Pan Macmillan

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• I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Two, Loving You, Might

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• I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying "yes" than by sayings "no".

  Richard Branson

  Positive, Saying Yes, Saying No

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• I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing my passion.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Inspirational, Passion, Ambition

  "The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to others in due course, I'll be given-or not given-the opportunity of benefiting from what I've learned. In any case, I'll have enjoyed the inestimable advantage of doing things I like doing and following my own inclinations.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Happiness, Opportunity, Mind

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

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• Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not
  keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote
  places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.

  Tryon Edwards

  Happiness, Doors, Heaven

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.555, Ravenio Books

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