but the valley sheep are fatter;
we therefore deem it meeter
to carry off the latter."
- Thomas Love Peacock
(10/18/1785 – 01/23/1866)
English writer
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"Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance."
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"Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day."
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"Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise."
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"Get my Swan costume ready."
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"Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly."
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"This is a thousand times more frightening than 'The Exorcist.' I intend to cover it with mayonnaise."
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"Between religion's 'this is' and poetry's 'but suppose this is,' there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity."
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"I was impressed with the potential positive relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, so I chose an elderly character."
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"Today I have a strong desire to photograph women clothed from head to foot with hardly an inch of flesh. It will be a challenge to work under such restraints."
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"For three days after death, hair and fingernails
continue to grow, but phone calls taper off."
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"To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature."
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