#pleasure

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#begins #child #climax #compare #ending

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. ↗

— Marina Warner

#imagery #pain #pleasure #vocabulary

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. ↗

— Simone Weil

#dreams #found #hard #joys #pleasant

I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being. ↗

— Anne Bancroft

#being #had #human #human being #i

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#books #ceased #friends #give #more

My pleasure was to copy, not to create. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#create #pleasure

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional? ↗

— Charles Eames

#functional #pleasure #said #who

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#choose #deem #deems #him #invade

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#deals #even #grave #laugh #long

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#art #pleasure #truth #uniting