#pleasures

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. ↗

— Ann Landers

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Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything. ↗

— Norman Lear

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To torture a man you have to know his pleasures. ↗

— Stanislaw Lem

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I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#cannot #drawings #imagination #models #only

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#character #comes #course #differences #each

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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