“As I've grown older, the simple pleasure of sitting on the couch with someone you love and watching a documentary is about as good as it gets for me.” SimplePleasureSittingDocumentariesCouchesOne You LoveSomeone You LoveSimple PleasuresGood As It Gets Author:Paul Wesley
“If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the joy of taking tickets for a play, dining well, sitting on after dinner, and finally not going at all. That, of course, is very heaven.” IfsWellsEndsPlayMightEarthJoyCoursesHeavenPleasureSittingTheaterLeavingDinnerTicketsDining Book:High Rising: A Virago Modern Classic Source: High Rising: A Virago Modern Classic
“Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?” PeopleMenWantPainSufferingHouseGivenPleasureSittingFellowsCharitySelfishnessWoeFellow ManCorpsesMerrySitting Up Book:Redburn.His First Voyage Source: Redburn.His First Voyage