"Gamblers and lovers really play to lose." — Lawrence Durrell
"Gamblers and lovers really play to lose."
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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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When I played the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve, I got to bring Wiley, my 85-pound…
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If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird…
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The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing…
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Many gamblers think they're being singled out by fate as a target for cruel jokes. They feel they alone in…
— Mike Caro
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I made mistakes. I can’t whine about it. I’m the one that messed up and I’m paying the consequences. However,…
— Pete Rose
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The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
— Gautama Buddha
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It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . .…
— Isaac Asimov
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I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers.
— Chazz Palminteri
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I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by…
— Wayne Newton
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than…
— Vince Cable
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Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.
— Max von Sydow
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