#plea

The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway. ↗

— Jack Vance

#beginning #could #ending #good #graceful

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it. ↗

— Thomas Harris

#hunting #pleasure #problem #problem solving #savage

No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#man #pleases #right

Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#assistant #before #during #hunter #interfered

Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them! ↗

— Jeff Smith

#cook #good #just #please #reason

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. ↗

— Stendhal

#often #pleasure #spoiled

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears. ↗

— Stendhal

#fears #love #our #pleasures #proportion

He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#anywhere #bid #come #enter #first

It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted. ↗

— Angie Stone

#crutch #definitely #feeling #order #others

It seems I have a hard time being attracted to someone unless I respect what they do on some level. Otherwise, I would feel disdain for them. Which is not always pleasant in a relationship. Sometimes it's fun though. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#attracted #being #disdain #feel #fun