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Quotes About Pleasure

When we hear that "war" is made for "peace", or that "pain" is sought for "pleasure" or that "brutality" helps one "feel", in our minds, language ceases to describe reality. Words lose their direct relationship with actuality. And thus language and culture begin to exist entirely independently of nature.
~ Susan Griffin
I lay unprotesting each touch bringing me exquisite pleasure and impossible pain.If only I had seen the smallest kindness in her face, if only there had not been such hunger... She stripped me in every way possible, herself remaining protected from revelation of her own soul.
~ Susan Heyboer O'Keefe
I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size. I love the feel of paper. The sound it makes when I turn a page. I love the beauty of print on paper, the patterns, the shapes, the fonts. I am astonished by the versatility and practicality of The Book. It is so simple. It is so fit for its purpose. It may give me mere content, but no e-reader will ever give me that sort of added pleasure.
~ Susan Hill
Would you agree," he said, "that man's sole duty is to produce as much pleasure as possible?" "Only if the pleasure produced is equivalent to the diminution of pain." My father crossed his arms. "And only if one man's pleasure is as important as any other's.
~ Susan Hubbard
She writhed helplessly against his steely grip, her frantic movement only furthering the progress of his softly caressing tongue. In moments, Hazard forced a shuddering moan from her and quivering she gasped in shallow rapturous sighs.
~ Susan Johnson
It seemed a little risky, enjoying something so… fun, but I couldn't help it.
~ Susan Juby
I love spaghetti and meatballs... I eat a lot.
~ Susan Lucci
and grinned. "The lady
~ Susan May Warren
Her mouth trembled and parted and she began to gasp in light, shallow breaths that made her flushed breasts quiver deliciously, invitingly… He bent and touched a stiff pink nipple experimentally with his mouth, very gently. She jerked and cried out, exploding beneath him in a series of violent convulsions that almost unseated him.
~ Susan Napier
Finally, when she was shaking so much that he staggered with the violence of her pleasure, he drove her back against the wall and took her as she stood, careless of the clothes that bunched between them, oblivious to everything but the primitive, driving force that had conquered him far more devastatingly than he had conquered her.
~ Susan Napier
the kind of person who liked to have two cigarettes going at the same time.
~ Susan Orlean
It was said of Dante that he always had time for lechery.
~ Susan Orlean
sex which involves a healthy balance between physical pleasure and emotional bonding might be called 'synchrony sex' and reflects a secure tendency. Sex used largely for comfort and as a way to calm doubts or conflicts, which Johnson terms 'solace sex', suggests a
~ Susan Quilliam
The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak.
~ Susan Sontag
What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
~ Susan Sontag
A hard choice. Water or books. Hmm. One could always have wine instead.
~ Susan Vreeland
I've come to think that if doing something simple or silly can give a person pleasure, then, by God, do it
~ Susan Vreeland
When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.
~ Susanna Kaysen
She don't want you around all fucking day. Many women that I know take you home, you make love, it's all over, you get up, you can see the relief on their faces: Not only does he fuck me well, he leaves.
~ Susanna Moore
and with a low moan he entered me with such ease, such presumption, that I began to come the moment he was inside of me.
~ Susanna Moore
And there was still pleasure in it. A man who knew he could fuck.
~ Susanna Moore
He was a true voluptuary, in his own modest way, with a voluptuary's genius for softening the world around him.
~ Suzanne Berne
Hey, Effie, watch this!" says Peeta. He tosses his fork over his shoulder and literally licks his plate clean whit his tongue making loud, satisfied sounds. Then he blows a kiss out to her in general and calls, "We miss you, Effie!
~ Suzanne Collins
I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.
~ Suzanne Collins