Pastoral Resources

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being.

I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy.

The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.