Barbara Holland - Pleasure Quotes

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Napping is too luxurious, too sybaritic, too unproductive, and it's free; pleasures for which we don't pay make us anxious. Besides, it seems to be a natural inclination.... Fighting off natural inclinations is a major Puritan virtue, and nothing that feels that good can be respectable.

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Moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people.

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Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy.... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.

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