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“It felt like an indulgence. Going back was painful, but, at the same time, it was nice to live with them again for a few pages. I got to live with my brother again for the entire book. Of course as I'm writing the book, I'm getting closer and closer to the end and I know what that means. I knew exactly where I was heading. It was really difficult, but it was nice to make them come alive for those scenes. It was good.”

Knows Writing Mean Book Ends Courses Felt Difficult Nice Alive Brother Scene Pages Painful My Brother Indulgence Headings

Author:Jesmyn Ward

“While it's a great indulgence, it's also very interesting to have three bass players on the same track.”

Three Interesting Player Track Very Interesting Indulgence Bass Bass Players

Author:Bryan Ferry

“I'm trying not to delve into my world of abstraction and self-indulgence. But I haven't. When I sit down and I try not to [be abstract], it comes out really forced and awkward.”

World Trying Self Havens Down And Abstract Awkward Abstraction Indulgence Self Indulgence

Author:Spencer Krug

“There are a ton of foods that are great for you, that's like an indulgence.”

Author:Tracee Ellis Ross

“Those who live simply are often pure, while those who live luxuriously may be slavish and servile. It seems that the will is clarified by plainness, while conduct is ruined by indulgence.”

May Seems Pure Taoism Ruined Indulgence Live Simply Plainness

Author:Zicheng Hong

“I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.”

Thinking Mean Self Fall Interesting Accepting Creativity Love You Falling In Love Assets Narcissism Indulgence Self Indulgence Self Indulgent Falling In Love With You

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“In the end, self-indulgence is very much about your ego and your vanity and your own id. The more you can indulge in it, the more pleasurable it becomes. And then when it feeds out, it's able to penetrate the mind and create a reaction.”

Mind Ends Self Able Ego Reactions Vanity Indulge Penetrate Indulgence Indulge In Self Indulgence

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“There is also somehow the idea that this gay thing is all just about indulgence in carnal pleasure. When I was twenty and felt that nobody could know I was gay, I was having sex with strangers in public parks. I don't think it was evil exactly, but it wasn't so great either. There was nobody particularly benefiting from it, except, I suppose, to the extent that it gave some pleasure to me and perhaps whomever I was with.”

Thinking Knows Ideas Evil Sex Felt Pleasure Gay Twenties Stranger Parks Indulgence Having Sex

Author:Andrew Solomon

“I think stand-up comedy is this - it's this kind of indulgence and narcissism.”

Thinking Kind Comedy Narcissism Indulgence Stand Up Comedy

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Make sure you eat whole foods that are good for your entire body. This doesn't mean that you can't enjoy your food or make room for plenty of indulgences. But your conscious goal has to be to eat for long term health and what you do most of the time is what really counts.”

Mean Long Whole Body Enjoy Goal Term Rooms Conscious Plenty Long Term Indulgence Whole Foods

Author:Daphne Oz

“Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle speech and worldly talk, to buffoonery and cracking indecent jokes. There is self-indulgence in touching without necessity, making mocking signs with the hands, pushing for a place, snatching up something for oneself, approaching someone else shamelessly. All these things come from not having the fear of God in the soul and from these a man comes little by little to perfect contempt.”

Men May Littles Soul Self Hands Christian Form Perfect Speech Jokes Sight Oneself Pushing Orthodox Touching Contempt Idle Worldly Indulgence Self Indulgence Self Indulgent

Author:Dorotheus of Gaza

“Sin is one thing but instinctive reaction or passion is another. These are our reactions: pride, anger, sexual indulgence, hate, greed, and so on. The corresponding sins are the gratification of these passions: when a man acts and brings into corporeal reality those works which were suggested to him by his desires. It is impossible to exist without desires arising, but not to give way to them is by no means impossible.”

Men Way Giving Mean Reality Christian Desire Hate Passion Sin Impossible One Thing Pride Greed Reactions Orthodox Gratification Indulgence Orthodox Christian Corresponding

Book:Discourses and Sayings

Source: Discourses and Sayings

“Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned latter-day 'Epicureanism' as a fussy, expensive, unphilosophical approach to eating and drinking.”

Culture Inspire Approach Eating Ethics Drinking Expensive Latter Isolated Rejected Indulgence Sects Sensory Latter Days Fussy Libertine Eating And Drinking Epicureanism

Author:Catherine Wilson

“The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live vicariously through you, so you have to pursue more and more unpleasant pastimes in order to satisfy the armchair people. That's a kind of scary existence.”

People Feels Kind Self Order Existence Scary Pursue Indulgence Disregard Pastime Absorption Self Absorption Armchairs

Author:Emily Haines

“I have to say I've been pretty lucky in that my French fry indulgences don't really affect my skin. I keep a stable routine.”

Lucky Skins Routine Stable Indulgence

Author:Tinashe

“By the time I came to do the final ones [Harry Potter's film], I was working on something that was massively successful. There was a huge difference in indulgence and all sorts of stuff. A very big difference in peoples' attitudes. They were very pleased with themselves. In human terms, it was quite interesting to see the difference.”

Humans Bigs Film Stuff Term Differences Interesting Attitude Successful Huge Finals Harry Potter Potters Indulgence

Author:John Hurt

“There's not a lot of whimsicality in the form, not a lot of indulgence allowed. Like when I was younger, I would sometimes go, "Oh, every other section will be narrated by a chair." Or, "It will be a double helix shape!" That never really worked.”

Sometimes Form Shapes Chairs Sections Indulgence

Author:George Saunders

“The president has to project to the American people a sense of demanding idealism. Idealism which is not based in self-indulgence, but on self-denial and sacrifice, and on this such an America is going to be credible to the world.”

People World Self America President Sacrifice Projects Denial Idealism Indulgence Credible Self-denial Self Indulgence

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean that condition that allowed humans to dream of God.That condition that allowed the "dumb" to write spirituals and Russian songs and Irish lilts. That is love, and it's so much larger than anything I can conceive.”

Writing Humans Mean I Can Dream Romance Song Conditions Instance Dumb Indulgence Sentimentality

Author:Maya Angelou

“If you give up on trying to change larger structures and just go off on what some would say is a personal indulgence or being a survivalist, it can be seen as incredibly negative or pessimistic. But the other way to think of it is this: through manifesting the way we live and acting as if it's normal, you're defending yourself against depression and dysfunction, but you're also providing a model that others can copy. And that is absolutely about bringing large-scale change.”

Thinking Giving Trying Acting Giving Up Negative Manifest Indulgence Pessimistic Trying To Change

Author:David Holmgren

“I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do it.”

Enough Good Enough Indulgence

Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“We still live in a world of such gross injustice and inequality, that only privileged people like ourselves can afford to think of eros and art as top concerns in life. They are important, for sure, but I think it's high time to shift priorities around, away from selfish indulgence, and toward more concern for the wellbeing of so many others who suffer atrocities, injustice, and famine, all over the planet.”

People Thinking World Art Important Suffering Concern Injustice Selfish Priorities Inequality Gross Indulgence Wellbeing Famine Eros

Author:Massimo Pigliucci

“There is a middle path between indulgence and suppression, but the culture has overwhelmed that in the cacophony that has been created in the modern world and the commercial encouragement of avoidance and indulgence on the one hand, or suppression and "just do it," treating yourself as an object on the other. We've got to find a way that's more compassionate, softer, that allows us to move forward towards the kind of lives that we really want to live.”

World Kind Moving Culture Path Modern Encouragement Moving Forward Compassionate Overwhelmed Indulgence Just Do It Avoidance

Author:Steven C. Hayes

“It does seem like if you're an interesting person and you have endless amounts of money to indulge your fantasies, then those fantasies will be plagued with guilt about that level of indulgence. It really becomes a self-defeating exercise in pursuing hedonistic desires in any sort of normal or guiltless fashion.”

Desire Interesting Fantasy Fashion Exercise Guilt Indulge Indulgence

Author:Lawrence Douglas

“Egotism exists everywhere, but it has a different flavor in England, where the tabloid culture goes much deeper. It's just the indulgence of vulgarity, the wallowing in vulgarity. As with everything English, there's a sort of irony to it. They write a great deal about these trivial people who have a certain eminence, always with a bit of, "Isn't it ridiculous that we are writing about this person?"”

People Writing Different Culture Ridiculous Irony Egotism Indulgence Vulgarity

Author:Martin Amis

“Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop the emotional musculature that will allow them to show self-restraint.”

World Way May Self Shows Grows Born Growing Up Emotional Members Restraint Royal Indulgence Entitlement Royal Family Self Restraint

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“I have a job that requires me to get dressed up more often than if I were in another line of work, but I don't have a lot of indulgences. I like nice wine, and I like sushi, and those things aren't cheap. Well, they can be, but I don't think I'd go for the cheap fish!”

Thinking Nice Wine Indulgence

Author:Renee Zellweger

“Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.”

Soul Body Care Christian Life Is Religious Separation Christian Life Vain Temper Unnecessary Worldly Indulgence

Book:A practical treatise upon Christian perfection

Source: A practical treatise upon Christian perfection

“Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.”

World Children Littles Made Self Given Situation Taught Comfort China Saved Rational Enjoyment Indulgence Emperor Self Indulgence Boomers

Author:Eric Liu

“The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.”

Way May Eye Winning Best Way Tolerate Honorable Indulgence Malice

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary speech is usually corrected when it's transcribed into written prose.”

Has Beens Self Written Speech Ordinary Curious Prose Secretary Indulgence Self Indulgence Roaming Dictating

Book:Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates

Source: Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates

“Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.”

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.”

Ego Autobiography Indulgence

Author:Tom Robbins

“Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.”

Thinking Self Cases Worst Opposites Expenses Idealism Indulgence Wishful Thinking Exaltation Self Indulgence

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.”

Self Left Moral Path Resistance Framework Indulgence Free Society Self Indulgence Path Of Least Resistance

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”

“One of my personal indulgences is getting a weekly massage - it helps to re-align my body. I usually feel so much less tense after I've gotten rid of some knots in my shoulders and back.”

Feels Helping Body Shoulders Tense Indulgence Knots Massage

Author:Noureen DeWulf

“L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card.”

Self Easy Century Self Love Capitalism Available Credit Cards Narcissism Worth It 21st Century Slogans Indulgence Credit Card Effortless

Author:Geoff Mulgan

“The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.”

People World Religious Subjects Policy Habit Worship Reflection Concerned Philosopher Various Enlightened Mutual Senate Indulgence Emperor Superstitious Toleration Magistrates

Author:Edward Gibbon

“In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.”

Self Age Sacrifice Hero Destruction Foundation Myth Heroic Indulgence Self Sacrifice Self Destruction Self Indulgence

Book:The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd

Source: The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd

“Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad.”

Feels Feel Good Indulgence Self Indulgence

Author:Angelina Jolie

“The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.”

“Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.”

Want Littles Pain Spirit Hate Turns Grows Pure Hatred Variety Indifference Immortal Despise Disgusting Indulgence Bittersweet Insipid

Book:The plain speaker: opinions on books, men, and things [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: The plain speaker: opinions on books, men, and things [by W. Hazlitt].

“The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop power of self-mastery that he may never be a slave to indulgence or other weaknesses, to develop [strong] manhood, beautiful womanhood that in every child and every youth may be found at least the promise of a friend, a companion, one who later may be fit for husband or wife, an exemplary father or a loving intelligent mother, one who can face life with courage, meet disaster with fortitude, and face death without fear.”

“restraint equals indulgence”

Restraint Indulgence

Book:Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Self Found Forget Know How Focus Fame Demand Satisfied Rest Of Your Life Indulgence Think Of You Self Indulgence

Book:The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle

Source: The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle

“Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence”

Grows Appetite Indulgence

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The 12-step chocolate program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE!”

Steps Food Program Chocolate Indulgence Dessert Yummy Funny Chocolate Sweets And Desserts 12 Step

Author:Terry Moore

“Sometimes it’s a sort of indulgence to think the worst of ourselves. We say, ‘Now I have reached the bottom of the pit, now I can fall no further,’ and it is almost a pleasure to wallow in the darkness. The trouble is, it’s not true. There is no end to the evil in ourselves, just as there is no end to the good. It’s a matter of choice. We struggle to climb, or we struggle to fall. The thing is to discover which way we’re going.”

Thinking Way I Can Ends Sometimes Matter Choices Fall Evil Pleasure Darkness Struggle Trouble Worst Bottom Climbs Pits Indulgence

Book:The Scapegoat

Source: The Scapegoat

“It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction - to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.”

Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799