“We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.” PleasurePropertyDrivenSellingObsessedBuyingCommerceBuying And Selling Author:Cornel West
“If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though without his serpentine syntax. It's a delicious treat, studded with wise and beautifully observed detail, that places side by side those perpetually fascinating antagonists, the eager, casual American and the meticulous, pleasure-driven French. Christine Sneed knows everyone's intimate secrets and her book is lively, amusing, and, ultimately, kind to pretty much all of them.” IfsKnowsKindSaidStillsBookSidesPleasureSecretWiseWrittenTreatsDetailsDrivenParisIntimateFascinatingDeliciousCasualAmusingLivelyAntagonistSyntaxMeticulousChristine Author:Rosellen Brown
“The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.” MenPleasureDarknessHellPureAll ThingsLeavingDrivenMiserableBlackness Author:Lucretius
“The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts are not profitable. They yield wisdom, but wisdom is not profitable. I find pleasure in doubt, but let's face it, my pleasure is not very profitable. To me, the truth is that things mean many things at once, and all of them opposed to each other, and all of them true.” WorldMeanTruthFacesPleasureDoubtTruth IsProfitDrivenContradictionYieldProfitable Author:Jamaica Kincaid