"It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone."

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Source : Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60

Alexander Smith

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“But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.”
“The world isn't perfect, and some days it wears you down. You can either accept that, and face it, and be a help to others instead of a hindrance. Or you can decide the rules are too tough and they shouldn't apply to you, and you can ignore them and make things harder for everybody else. Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it's about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn't perfection. The point is doing it anyway.”

Source : Chloe Neill (2012). “Biting Cold: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel”, p.97, Penguin
“Technology creates the context for persuasion, but content persuades. Technology helps get content to the right people at the right time. The content still has to influence. Delivering the wrong content at the right time is as bad as delivering the right content at the wrong time.”
“When I start on a book, I have been thinking about it and making occasional notes for some time... So I have lots of theme, locale, subjects and technical ideas... I don't worry about long periods of not doing anything. I know my subconscious is busy.”
“I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it.... I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.”
“All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.”

Source : Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.
“We have to start with a ban on the manufacturing and import of handguns. From there we register the guns which are currently owned, and follow that with additional bans and acquisitions of handguns and rifles with no sporting purpose.”
“Republicans are just rich, old, white people - that's all they are. You ever see the Republican National Convention? All white people - six black people: paid actors. James Earl Jones in his most difficult, challenging role! Tune in and attempt to watch him look pleased during a George Bush speech. And Clarence Thomas - as himself.”

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