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> [I have found that whiskey is enjoyed as a refined secret pleasure in many cities - and it appears to be popular in Pakistan, as it is all over the tropical Asian world, Muslim or non-Muslim.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-osborne/i-have-found-that-whiskey-is-enjoyed-as-a-refined-secret-pleasure-in/)

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## More by Lawrence Osborne

> [There's a distinct unease about Americans when they are outside the United States. I can't say quite what it is, but they are easily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-osborne/there-s-a-distinct-unease-about-americans-when-they-are-outside-the/)

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> [I made the decision that I didn't want to spend my life in rooms and write about rooms, or else make books that are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-osborne/i-made-the-decision-that-i-didn-t-want-to-spend-my-life-in-rooms-and/)

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> ['The Odyssey' is a great poem to refugee-dom... Odysseus is not entirely a refugee... he's somebody who's blown off course. The entire book is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-osborne/the-odyssey-is-a-great-poem-to-refugee-dom-odysseus-is-not-entirely-a/)

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> [I'll wager there isn't a human being on earth who doesn't believe in luck, however rational they pretend to be in public life. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-osborne/i-ll-wager-there-isn-t-a-human-being-on-earth-who-doesn-t-believe-in/)

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> [The drinker is a Dionysiac, a dancer who sits still, a mocker. He doesn't need your seriousness or your regard. He just needs a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-osborne/the-drinker-is-a-dionysiac-a-dancer-who-sits-still-a-mocker-he-doesn/)

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> [Bangkok is infamously mired in lurid contradiction, but it's also a city of subtle and distorted moods that journalism and film have hitherto mostly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-osborne/bangkok-is-infamously-mired-in-lurid-contradiction-but-it-s-also-a/)

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> [So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-osborne/so-many-writers-live-their-whole-lives-in-rooms-you-can-be-too/)

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> [I read Gide's 'The Immoralist' over and over as a teenager. I was obsessed with it. It's written with such simplicity and dread, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-osborne/i-read-gide-s-the-immoralist-over-and-over-as-a-teenager-i-was/)

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> [Mongolians are epic drinkers and carousers, and in this respect, they are extremely congenial to my own way of thinking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-osborne/mongolians-are-epic-drinkers-and-carousers-and-in-this-respect-they/)

[Lawrence Osborne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-osborne/)

> [One winter, I went to Erfoud to research trilobites and got to know the quarries, the dealers, and the remote mining villages. They are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-osborne/one-winter-i-went-to-erfoud-to-research-trilobites-and-got-to-know/)

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> [Sometimes you can publish a first novel in a kind of lyrical flourish, but it is not really a lyrical form. The beautiful truths…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-osborne/sometimes-you-can-publish-a-first-novel-in-a-kind-of-lyrical-flourish/)

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> [I spent a fair amount of time in Communist Poland when I was young - my wife was from there - and I had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-osborne/i-spent-a-fair-amount-of-time-in-communist-poland-when-i-was-young-my/)

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> [I've got everything against likable characters. Likable characters are usually completely forgettable, and we don't really care. I think we love villains... precisely because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-osborne/i-ve-got-everything-against-likable-characters-likable-characters-are/)

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> [At the end of the 18th century, a young British explorer named George Bogle became one of the first Westerners to penetrate the mysterious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-osborne/at-the-end-of-the-18th-century-a-young-british-explorer-named-george/)

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> [I suppose I reached the limit of what I could do with nonfiction books, perhaps because they never felt quite intense enough - it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-osborne/i-suppose-i-reached-the-limit-of-what-i-could-do-with-nonfiction/)

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