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- Nov 07, 2020
Greatest Pleasure Quotes
Life's simple, honest joys.
These greatest pleasure quotes cover a wide range — proving doubters wrong, re-reading a favorite book, and the particular Delight of language that has its own inner music.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, my three sisters, and their families.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look back with the greatest pleasure to the kindness and hospitality I met with in Yorkshire, where I spent some of the happiest years of my life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
My greatest pleasure is going out on a horrible, cold, wet January morning to pick the vegetables for our Sunday lunch, putting them in a muddy pile on the table, and then spending 45 minutes washing and preparing them. I like doing it because it's so different to what I do in the week. The same holds for cleaning the car or shining my shoes.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had done some work when I was starting in with photography on westerns, and photographing them was the greatest pleasure I had. If I was ever qualified for anything, it would have had to do with making westerns. But as I started working on pictures with people like Katharine Hepburn, I got further away from the thing I really liked to do.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it, is the greatest pleasure I know.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020