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The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#convinced #far #first #first thing #man

Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#carries #carved #choice #hands #her

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view. ↗

— George Savile

#contribute #enemy #his #make #man

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject. ↗

— George Savile

#best #better #drunkard #ever #preached

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#get #life #longer #men #modern

Hope changes everything, doesn't it? ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#everything #hope

Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#better #despite #else #explain #flaws

For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie. ↗

— John Sayles

#average #change #direct #draft #first

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me. ↗

— John Sayles

#book #books #came #certainly #down

I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department. ↗

— John Sayles

#art #change #clothes #department #i