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«The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.»
«Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.»
Author: Edward Weston
| About:
Photography
| Keywords:
amateur, like an amateur, photography, pleasurable, professional, re-creation, recreation, recreations, The Professional
«Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.»
Author: Fran Lebowitz
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Love,
Romantic love,
Sex
| Keywords:
distorts, drug, fall in, fall in love, illness, pleasurable, romantic, romantic love, saw, the point, The Romantic
«Nothing is more pleasurable than to sit in the shade, sip gin and contemplate other people's adulteries, and while the wormy apple of marriage still lives, the novel will not die.»
«There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.»
«The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Happiness,
Kissing,
Life,
Smile
| Keywords:
charities, compliment, countless, fractions, genial, made-up, pleasurable
«The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Ending,
Literature
| Keywords:
cash, gratification, lastly, One Family, pleasurable, sensible, toil
«When one is under the Lord's Command, one find even hunger pleasurable;»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
pleasurable
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