"Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure"

-- David Brooks

#Pleasure Quotes

“I grew up in a family that my father was a very, very, a person with so many ideas, so many new visions and dreams. For me to grow up in that family, that also helped me to have a vision to create and open boundaries and things. So I think it's like, it just comes from the family.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I wrote because I could not help it. There was something that I wanted to say, and I said it: that was all. The fame and the money and the usefulness might or might not follow. It was not by my endeavor if they did.”
“Mastering an art is like reaching the top of the passion mountain....at the top the passion dies out! So keep learning.”

Source : "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.
“The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.”
“One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'”
“Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.”
“The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.”

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