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“Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries!”

Pleasure Love You Possibility Library Incredibles Excitement Glamour Pleasure Love

Author:Stephen Fry

“I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters, the places of amusement, and such nights as the last I spent with you just as I was leaving for the West.”

Lasts Night Opportunity Pleasure New York Ambition Theater West Leaving Pursuit Excitement Amusement Advancement Pleasures Of Life

Author:Cass Gilbert

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

Pleasure Emotional Meat Excitement

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.”

Lying Pleasure Wine Excitement Enjoyment Calmness

Author:Victor Hugo

“Cornering is like bringing a woman to a climax. Both you and the car must work together. You start to enter the area of excitement at the corner, you set up a pace which is right for the car and after you've told it it is coming along with you, you guide it along at a rhythm which has by now become natural. Only after you've cleared the corner you can both take pleasure in knowing it's gone well.”

Wells Together Natural Pleasure Gone Knowing Car Areas Corners Guides Rhythm Excitement Working Together Pace Climax

Author:Jackie Stewart

“Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch films that stimulate your writing. In your writing, go where the pain is; go where the pleasure is; go where the excitement is. Believe in your own original approach, voice, characters, story. Ignore critics. Have nerve. Be stubborn.”

“It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.”

Mind Humans May Reading Pleasure Effort Novel Worst Effects Habit Mere Curiosity Excitement Human Mind Receiving Sensibility Habitual Exertion

Book:The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.”

Ifs World Looks Has Beens Enough Home Joy Father Pleasure Inspiring Sadness Tomorrow Lucky Leaving Excitement Caves Carriages Miscarriage Leaving Home Father Leaving

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“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

“Depression isn't the almighty ruler of your destiny. Even its familiar traits - grief, anger, despair - you find that you can use in other ways. I can create with them in my writing and my life, mix them up with excitement and pleasure. I can name that terrible, numbing paralysis and know it will pass.”

Knows Way Writing I Can Use Names Pleasure Grief Destiny Terrible Despair Familiar Excitement Traits Rulers Almighty Our Destiny Your Destiny Paralysis Numbing

Author:Margo Jefferson