Deals Quote by Colm Toibin

“Narcissistic pleasure seekers routinely avoid developing the humility required to manufacture a life of full measure. Shallow persons such as me hide their insecurities…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour.

— John Braine

A little narcissism is good. At least that's what I am telling myself.

— Andy Dunn

I'm someone very comfortable airing out the stories of my own life. Some people call it narcissism, but for me, the intention is that…

— Leandra Medine

“The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of “fun,” constantly cries for more and more. So the next new pleasure has…

— Stephen R. Covey

There's a thin line between narcissism, even if it's a healthy narcissism, and entertainment.

— Richard Lewis

One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out…

— Bill Ayers

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

— Stendhal

I guess I still feel that way and yet I'm slightly hesitant to insist on that idea, that it "better be fun for the…

— Rachel Kushner

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does…

— Michel de Montaigne

There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking.

— Fanny Lewald

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

— Max Eastman