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It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.


George Plimpton


#biography #editor #jury #oral #pleasures

I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Overall, I was happiest to be alone; for it was then I was most aware of what I possessed. Free to look out over the rooftops of the city. Happy to be alone in the company of friends, the company of lovers and strangers. Everything, I decided, in this life, was pure pleasure.


Roman Payne


#alone #aloneness #company #flowers #friends

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.


J. L. Austin


#agreement #barren #co-operation #discovery #fun

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.


Jane Austen


#half #one half #other #pleasures #understand

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.


Francis Bacon


#almighty #first #garden #god #god almighty

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.


Orlando A. Battista


#enemy #experience #feeling #forgive #genuinely

I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table.


Mario Batali


#am #better #end #everyday #everything

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.


Madonna Ciccone


#depend #man #permission #pleasures #poor

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.


Denis Diderot


#also #endlessly #forgets #his #man

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.


John Dryden


#far #other #pains #pleasures #sweeter






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