#plea

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#pleasures #revision #writing

I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#angels #be happy #believing #demons #even

I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#beg #discussion #dwell #forget #his

In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#authority #connection #experience #faith #feelings

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#even #i #many #my time #near

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#belly #big #concealing #consequences #exposed

One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#apart #entirely #expansive #great #great virtues

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing. ↗

— Garry Marshall

#i #life #makes #movie #my life

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#cigar #occasional #pleasure #smoke #woman

I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war. ↗

— Aslan Maskhadov

#chechnya #i #me #more #much