"Comedians are the nearest to suicide." — Lawrence Durrell
"Comedians are the nearest to suicide."
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Lawrence Durrell
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93 Quotes by Lawrence Durrell
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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or…
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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the…
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
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The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible…
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Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they…
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Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
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More Comedian Quotes
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I don't think I was a good comedian.
— Brigitte Bardot
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I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask…
— Roseanne Barr
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When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be…
— Roseanne Barr
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As a standup comedian, I've worked almost every New Year's Eve of my adult life. It's the best-paying night of…
— Elayne Boosler
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I wasn't funny as a kid. I remember enjoying comedians, but I never understood it was a job choice or…
— Elayne Boosler
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There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.
— Elayne Boosler
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It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm…
— Elayne Boosler
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The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.
— Jo Brand
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Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley…
— Jo Brand
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Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to…
— Albert Brooks
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I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.
— Lenny Bruce
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The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
— Lenny Bruce
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