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• There is much appeal for me in Eastern religion, the little I know of it. And something thorny in me finds American adaptations of Buddhism terribly self-indulgent, silly, gooey in the way the English call "wet."

  Robert Pinsky

  Silly, Buddhism, Self

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction.

  A. S. Byatt

  Lying, Self, Fiction

  "Sugar and Other Stories". Book by A. S. Byatt, 1987.

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• Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up to "Slaughterhouse-Five" do possess a distinctiveness that will insure some kind of permanence, if only in the history of the 1960s and of science fiction.

  Michael Dirda

  Book, Writing, Self

  "Kurt Vonnegut". Live discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. April 12, 2007.

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• Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Thinking, Self, Encounters

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.81, Stanford University Press

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• You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous and self-indulgent, like the relationships between women when there are no men around. They make each other presents, and they have little feasts, and nobody punishes anyone else. This is the female way of going along when there are no men about or when men are not in the ascendant.

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Self, Female

  Doris May Lessing (1996). “Putting questions differently: interviews with Doris Lessing, 1964-1994”

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• An artist is somebody that puts themselves in a room, they're a wee bit self-indulgent and you know, sink into their music and it [will] be a very personal experience. An entertainer was somebody that took their God-given talent and shared it with people. And I've always wanted to be an entertainer.

  Johnny Reid

  Artist, Self, People

  "Johnny Reid headlining Fredericton's Maritime Countryfest". "Information Morning Fredericton" with Terry Seguin, www.cbc.ca. June 20, 2015.

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• That's the thing about being an artist, you don't have to take anyone else's perspective into account. You can act as self-indulgent in your emotions as you want.

  Jessica Origliasso

  Artist, Self, Perspective

  Source: www.fuse.tv

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• I'll smoke anything. I won't spend a lot of money on cigars, because I consider that too self indulgent. $3, max, except for special occasions. And yes, I do know the difference.

  Gene Weingarten

  Special, Cigar, Special Occasion

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Societies don't become less self-indulgent; people do.

  Mal Fletcher

  Self, People

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• At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Self, Risk, Nerves

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• Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Writing, Self, Space

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think it would be self-indulgent to go, "Oh, I'm going to make this character different by giving him a quirk of some kind." I don't think that serves the story, particularly. But even very similar scenes with a different set of actors, a different set of circumstances, it starts to evolve as a different character.

  David Tennant

  Character, Thinking, Self

  "A Crime Drama Crosses The Atlantic And Detective David Tennant Is On The Case". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 11, 2014.

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• It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to do. In the '60s there was a strong prejudice against careerism. We were self-indulgent and self-destructive.

  Michael Medved

  Strong, Self, Ideas

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• So we are mocked by this world when we speak of God's coming judgment against all sin, and when we plead that sinners come to the Savior to avoid Hell. But we can't give up because our task is irksome, or because we are mocked. Neither can we live self-indulgent lives, because our convictions aren't based on some man-made and fallible calculations. They are based on the immutability of the Word of God.

  Ray Comfort

  Giving Up, Men, Self

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• Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

  Oswald Chambers

  Beautiful, Self, Sound

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.381, Discovery House

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• Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.

  Mark Morris

  Self, Want, Today

  "Portrait of the artist: Mark Morris, choreographer". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2009.

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• You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

  Gena Rowlands

  Death, Husband, Self

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• People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true. Some people think you should be busy making something that you can sell in the marketplace, and if nobody wants to buy it, it must be crap. And that's not true.

  Dana Spiotta

  Art, Thinking, Self

  "Dana Spiotta on living the creative life". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. August 3, 2011.

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• I am pretty self-indulgent.

  Francesca Annis

  Self, I Am Pretty

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• The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious, only the determined, only the courageous, only the visionary who determine the real nature of our struggle can possibly survive.

  John F. Kennedy

  Strong, Real, Struggle

  Address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors at the Statler Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., April 20, 1961.

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• Everyone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it be mosque or synagogue.

  Hafez

  God, Self, Mosques

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• Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?

  Alan Sokal

  Self, Achievement, Political

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• If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

  Moby

  Self, People, Musician

  Interview with Neil Strauss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2009.

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• There’s an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it’s self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a tool to understand the world and my experience in it. It’s not a tool to understand myself.

  Michael Pollan

  Writing, Self, World

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview with Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

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• I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

  Kevin Costner

  Believe, Kissing, Long

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