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“I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.”

Feels Done Pleasure Ordinary Photographer

Author:Andre Kertesz

“There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.”

Values Pleasure Ordinary Ordinary Life

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.”

World Ends Enough Stories Values Found My Own Pleasure Changed Creating Ordinary Hot Rings Granted Surprising Showers End Of The World Ordinary Things

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburgh’s empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore.”

Problem Night Pleasure Mystery Streets Shapes Summer Ordinary Rain Empty Absolutes Luminous Skates Odor Pittsburgh Maple Summer Rain Empty Streets

Book:The Dance Most of All: Poems

Source: The Dance Most of All: Poems

“Rice and peas fit into that category of dishes where two ordinary foods, combined together, ignite a pleasure far beyond the capacity of either of its parts alone. Like rhubarb and strawberries, apple pie and cheese, roast pork and sage, the two tastes and textures meld together into the sort of subtle transcendental oneness that we once fantasized would be our experience when we finally found the ideal mate.”

“You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.”

Men Giving Mind Difficult Pleasure Objects Taste Ordinary Curiosity Luxury Crowns Cheaper Ordinary Man Caprice Pascal

Book:La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.”

Differences Pleasure Inspiring Ordinary Extraordinary Ordinary Life Extraordinary Things Ordinary Things Extraordinary Life

Author:Veronique Vienne