"Everything really desirable has come about because of,……" — Lawrence Durrell

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93 Quotes by Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence Durrell has 93 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or…
It is not peace we seek but meaning.
The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the…
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible…
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they…
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.

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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action… — Abigail Adams
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested… — James A. Baldwin
The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least… — David Brainerd
The problem with the designated driver programme, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing… — Jeff Bridges
I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the… — Buzz Aldrin
You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to… — Kim Cattrall
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
There are some desires that are not desirable. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective… — Koichiro Matsuura
Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements.… — Maxwell Maltz
If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think… — William Graham Sumner
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good. — Abraham Lincoln

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