“ There is the pleasurable orgasm, like a rising sales graph, and there is the unpleasurable orgasm, slumping ominously like the Dow Jones in 1929. ”
- William S. Burroughs- Copy
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“ I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not. ”
- Jim Elliot- Copy
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“ If we do not find anything pleasant, at least we shall find something new. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
- 2.6K
“ If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
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“ An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House and Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had. ”
- Robert Hughes- Copy
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“ I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. ”
- John D. Rockefeller- Copy
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“ The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. ”
- Heywood Broun- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
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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. ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
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“ An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold. ”
- Julie Burchill- Copy
- 1.8K
“ 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. ”
- Fran Lebowitz- Copy
- 3K
“ complaining is what we do well. We do it artfully and with gusto, and although I personally consider it a pleasurable hobby, sometimes you just have to gag your inner whiner to let other voices get a word in edgewise. ”
- Carol Lloyd- Copy
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