#pleasure

The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror. ↗

— Sonya Levien

#devilish #extract #fascination #horror #instinct

L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#along #coldplay #cream #guilty #ice

She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make? ↗

— Toni Morrison

#relationships #women #pleasure

The pleasures of being a novelist are many.  But the greatest by far is the manner in which I live through my characters; experiencing every detail of their story as it unfolds gradually and personally within my own creative psyche.  I'm like a cat with untold lives, because each new book is my rebirth. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#enjoyment #novelist #pleasure #richelle #richelle-goodrich

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. ↗

— Josh Billings

#life #making #making money #man #money

But if you take pleasure in morality, then you are always in deficit. ↗

— Brian Castro

#life-lessons #morality #pleasure #life