"It can never be wrong to give pleasure."

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Source : Augustine Birrell (1922). “The Collected Essays & Addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...”

Augustine Birrell

#Giving Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“When you're not smoking anymore, you don't have to carry around a pack of cigarettes, a lighter - all this paraphernalia. So you're liberated in a certain sense. It's the same with drinking.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.”
“Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.”
“What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life.”

Source : Joseph Epstein (1979). “Familiar territory: observations on American life”, Oxford University Press
“I never knew modelling was what I wanted to do. I was just meandering through life having fun, having a laugh with my friends.”
“I love her [Kimberly Peirce]. Incredibly intense is a good way of describing her. Brutally honest. Really sharp. She's a director for actors. That's what she's best at, sitting down with an actor and just getting to the heart of what a scene is. And getting to the heart of not just what the scene is and the character is, but what you are, and how to build that bridge between the "me" and the character, and those emotions.”
“Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not.”

Source : "Muslims vs. Cartoons: What To Do Against Blasphemy?" by Mustafa Akyol, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2011.
“I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.”

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