#pleasure

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#actually #else #give #i #i think

I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person. ↗

— Terry Gross

#get #great #great pleasure #i #invisible

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#breaking #people #pleasure #promises #some

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#doors #enter #favor #i #me

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#comfort #consuming #convenience #deathly #fire

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#men #nor #pleasure #profit #such

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. ↗

— Ovid

#anxiety #goes #pleasure #pure #some

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure. ↗

— Lee Child

#pleasure #thrillers #vicarious

My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#backstage #brutalized #bullies #child #come

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#conform #hear #i #i can #i wish