“Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.” LinesPleasurePlayerRiskTrumpInstinctDrawingCardsInstructionSeemingUneasyBendingPerversity Author:Adam Gopnik
“That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.” MenHumansSelfOrderLinesPleasureSacrificeGoodnessDegreesLowsEnlightenmentAdvantagePursueIndulgenceDisregardForgetfulnessSelf SacrificeSelf Forgetfulness Author:James Anthony Froude
“I once truly believed that if I had to stand in line for twenty minutes to have a package gift-wrapped it actually gave the recipient more pleasure.” IfsLinesPleasureMinutesTwentiesPackages Book:Penny Candy Source: Penny Candy
“The apprentice realist uses line as a net to capture his prey, an imitation of reality. But soon he becomes enchanted with line as a thing. It becomes a servant of his pleasure.” UseRealityLinesPleasureServantCaptureImitationPreyRealistEnchantedApprentice Author:Rene Huyghe
“I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"” PeopleWayLinesPleasureBoysHopefullyBass Author:Lauryn Hill
“In America, where you'd have thought the country's so huge it couldn't happen quite so cosily, everyone's giving his imprimatur to everyone else. You line up three or four well-known poets and a couple of eminent academics on the dustjacket, and the rest of academe follow like sheep. That's death really, if you take pleasure in it. Mind you, the occasional puff's hard to resist, but you shouldn't inhale.” IfsGivingMindWellsCountryHardHappensAmericaThreeLinesPleasureKnownFourPoetHugeCoupleSheepWell KnownOccasionalPuffInhale Author:Michael Longley
“I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral builders of fiction. I never really know what I'm doing, and all my pleasure's on the level of the line. It's a weird way to move forward. It's kind of like a way to caterpillar your way through these great woods. The best ones, whatever I feel like I'm writing about, some other secret thing will begin to come into focus.” KnowsWayFeelsWritingKindMovingLinesPleasureLevelsSecretFictionFocusCapableWoodsMoving ForwardRoughBuilderCathedralsCaterpillarsRough Drafts Author:Karen Russell
“There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.” PainLinesPleasureFineBallsChainsFine LinesPain And PleasureLove Pain Author:Brian Setzer