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Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

Antony Hewish

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

William Hazlitt

Pleasure

Regret

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

Thomas Harris

Hunting

Pleasure

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Thomas Hardy

Pleasure

Profit

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

Zane Grey

Pleasure

Reading

All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

Germaine Greer

Pleasure

Spontaneity

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.