![[Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying but entirely bogus rumble of pleasure.](/assets/img/quote-photos/comics-were-viewed-as-the-literary-equivalent-of-bubblegum-cards-meant-to-be-p.jpg)
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As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
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Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.
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We usually just play cards - there's always a card game going on. Or we sit around. Sit around and talk.
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Everyone gets cards at the beginning of life. I am transgender, I decided to be honest and tell everyone about it, and that's it. Eddie Izzard
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One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty. Alan Bennett
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life. Agnes Repplier
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I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge. Charles Baudelaire
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...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source. Billy Collins