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“First and foremost, I'd say my father, Bert Lahr ... gave me a love of theatre--its kinetic and emotional potential and its raffish backstage fun--and also set an artistic example of the importance of corrupting an audience with pleasure.”

Firsts Father Fun Pleasure Audience Example Emotional Importance Theatre Artistic

Author:John Lahr

“Cognitive states of mind are seldom addictive, since they depend upon exploration of the world, and the individual encounter with the individual object, whose appeal is outside the subject's control. Addiction arises when the subject has full control over a pleasure and can ponder it at will. It is primarily a matter of sensory pleasure, and involves a kind of short-circuiting of the pleasure network. Addiction is characterized by a loss of the emotional dynamic that would otherwise govern an outward-directed, cognitively creative life.”

“[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it should meet one of many demands. They insist on making it stand for all the emotional pleasures of life and art; expecting an individual and self-limited passion to yield infinite variety, pleasure, and distraction, and to contribute to their lives what the arts and the pleasurable exercise of the intellect gives to less limited and less intense idealists.”

Source: The Essential Willa Cather Collection

“Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.”

Pleasure Emotional Meat Excitement

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy. ... Pleasure will become a marker, a compass pointing to emotional true north.”

Body Joy Pleasure Written Emotional Delight Sensations Pointing Compass Markers True North

Author:Carol Gilligan

“Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It's like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces it with emotional poison.”

Ifs Self Purpose Pleasure Emotion Brain Emotional Anger Blow Cruelty Poison Destructive Substitutes Justification Justified Triggers Loathing Self Loathing Tornadoes

Author:G. Frank Lawlis

“I think that when you create something or at least try to create something, you slither between excitement and pleasure and you understand this huge emotional frustration. You did one feat, then you go back one.”

Thinking Trying Pleasure Emotional Huge Excitement Frustration Feats

Author:Audrey Tautou

“Most of what I read is for reviewing purposes or related to something I want to write about. It's slightly utilitarian. I definitely miss that sense of being a disinterested reader who's reading purely for the pleasure of imagining his way into emotional situations and vividly realized scenes in nineteenth-century France or late nineteenth-century Russia.”

Way Want Writing Purpose Reading Pleasure Situation Century Missing Emotional Reader Scene Late Russia France Related Nineteenth Century Disinterested Utilitarian

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.”

Ifs Humans Pain Pleasure Emotional Activity Laughter Importance Misery Amour Human Activity Misery And Pain

Book:Crome Yellow

Source: Crome Yellow

“A person deprived of beauty and pleasure puts me in mind of the Haitian notion of a zombie - a person disconnected from his or her soul, a person who works for others' profit but never his own, a person who mindlessly does the bidding of the boss and exists in an emotional and mental limbo.”

Mind Persons Doe Soul Pleasure Emotional Notion Profit Boss Zombie Deprived Disconnected Bidding Limbo Haitian

Author:Ben Fountain

“Often, we separate intellectual discourse from emotional reaction. But I take such genuine pleasure in things that are intellectually well architected. It's definitely an integrated experience for me. Much more than any kind of cheap, emotional pulls that you get in popular culture, when I read a sentence and it's beautifully written, it can bring me to tears.”

Kind Culture Pleasure Tears Emotional Intellectual Integrated Popular Culture

Author:Francoise Mouly

“Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.”

Life Persons Long Motivational Values Term Pleasure Positive Emotional Maturity Long Term Mature Postponing Spiritual Maturity Emotional Maturity Maturity Level

Author:Joshua L. Liebman