It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.
Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of discovery and punishment.
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
If iT was Possible To Go The Way our Mind think and our Eyes Sometimes See, Life Will give more Pleasure to Us.
I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.
Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
Professionally I've evolved with what's required, but the pictures I do for pleasure haven't changed, except for the cars in the background, the clothing. I haven't changed at all.
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it is a way of showing your appreciation and love to the loved body through her senses.
I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
Pleasure brings pain, but inner silence brings nothing negative; it is in itself of great value and is a far better way to be than to be in ego states.
The key to finding happiness in this life is realizing that the only way to overcome is to transcend; to find happiness in the simple pleasures, to master the art of just being.
Don't listen to anyone. Trust what gives you pleasure. Trust the emotions. If you love something but can't explain why, that's enough
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.
The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.
Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
