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• Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in looking at it or splashing through it. Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry-because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.

  Valerie Worth

  Feelings, Important, Mud Puddles

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• I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.

  Bernard Rudofsky

  Art, Believe, Intellectual

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• We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.

  Epicurus

  Choices, Return, Good Things

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• Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you

  Bill Gates

  Sex, Cooking, Where You Live

  Twitter post from Aug 09, 2014

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• So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost. All the wrong environment will do is run his blood pressure up; he will spend more time being frustrated or outraged. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

  William Faulkner

  Running, Artist, Blood

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• 'I never feel the need to discuss my work with anyone. No, I am too busy writing it. It has got to please me and if it does I don't need to talk about it. If it doesn't please me, talking about it won't improve it, since the only thing to improve it is to work on it some more. I am not a literary man but only a writer. I don't get any pleasure from talking shop.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Men, Talking

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• With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

  Ken Baumann

  Writing, Domes, Aim

  "Go Forth (vol. 6)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. December 7, 2012.

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• I'm more interested in pulling out strands of joy from both myself and the audience. I'm not saying the music or songs are "light," just that when they're performed with the correct commitment it's a source of real pleasure, for me anyway.

  Michael Gira

  Song, Real, Commitment

  Interview with Michael Idov, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2005.

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• After all the Puritans came to America to escape from persecution and then turned around and started persecuting other people. So I understand that conflict that we have related to play and pleasure and sexuality. And I think what has made my life worthwhile is trying to deal with some of those questions.

  Hugh Hefner

  Thinking, Play, America

  "Hugh Hefner Reflects on Turning 80". "The Big Story" with John Gibson, www.foxnews.com. April 6, 2006.

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• President Karzai is an incredibly kind and decent man. I had the pleasure of meeting him, and he genuinely cares for his people. But I think he had too much of a tendency to want to rule by listening to all voices at all times.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Men, Thinking, Voice

  "Khaled Hosseini, Kabul’s Splendid Son". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June, 2009.

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• The writer has to make pleasure for the reader - which, I think, is done by taking one's character's seriously and taking one's readers seriously -don't condescend or try to be tricky. Be a friend to your reader - I'd say that's a pretty good first step.

  George Saunders

  Character, Thinking, Trying

  Source: und.edu

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• In a way I do hate the process of writing. It's like learning a role where you never think you're going to be able to conquer it when you start and it just takes enough focus and narrowing and getting enthusiastic and not losing it and so on. It's never good enough, but you aim for something and you hope it comes somewhat close. But it is a pleasure once you have written it.

  Julie Andrews

  Hate, Writing, Thinking

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• I think it's the sentence-to-sentence pleasures, the little surprises of a surprising style of an acute style, and also the way things happen one after the other, that makes a book interesting to read page to page

  John Updike

  Book, Thinking, Interesting

  John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, p.210, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When you're comfortable and secure, it's not enough. The mind doesn't stop there because it has to continue to focus itself as this body, so it moves to pleasure. And pleasure really is a non-existent thing. When we're experiencing pleasure, we're trying to hold onto it as it leaves, so it really isn't pleasure. Pleasure is pain because we're grasping.

  Byron Katie

  Pain, Moving, Focus

  "Doing the Work". Interview with Melissa Bond, www.catalystmagazine.net. April 30, 2007.

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• If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind's every waking moment will be plotting those things. That's how it stays identified - as a body, as a you.

  Byron Katie

  People, Mind, Waking

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview" by Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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• I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for an hour through the Bible. But I really do read it with a great deal of pleasure... which is the last thing I would have suspected. So I read it sometimes as a devotional, but really more, not for fun, but because it's fascinating.

  Frederick Buechner

  Fun, Giving, Want

  Source: www.jmm.org.au

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• What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Grief, Connections, Favors

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• Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Ignorance, Temptation, Vices

  Ann Radcliffe (1820). “The romance of the forest, by the authoress of 'A Sicilian romance'.”, p.93

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• Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough.

  Julie Newmar

  People, Giving, Innovation

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• The riches of heaven, the honor which cometh from God only, and the pleasures at His right hand, the absence of all evil, the presence and enjoyment of all good, and this good enduring to eternity, never more to be taken from us, never more to be in any, the least degree, diminished, but forever increasing, these are the wreaths which form the contexture of that crown held forth to our hopes.

  Thomas Hartwell Horne

  Hope, Taken, Hands

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• It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!

  Emily Eden

  Too Late, Half, Hours

  Emily Eden (1860). “The Semi-detached House”, p.174

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• Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Love Is, Light, Great Love

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.96, tredition

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• I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers, wringing from it even the pain. I ransack life, hunt it down. I am the hungry peasants storming the palace gates. I will have my share. No matter how it tastes.

  Marita Golden

  Pain, Answers, Half

  Marita Golden (2008). “Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography”, p.33, Anchor

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• The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated with the transactions of our mercantile citizens, it may be the pleasure and the pride of an American to ask, What farmer, what merchant, what laborer ever sees a tax gatherer of the United States?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pride, Luxury, Comfort

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• I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret.

  George Colman the Elder

  Secret, Vow, Secrecy

  David Garrick, George Colman, the elder (1995). “The Clandestine Marriage”, p.46, Broadview Press

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