"No one can go on being a rebel……" — Lawrence Durrell
"No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat."
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93 Quotes by Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell has 93 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
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More Autocrat Quotes
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one of 11 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat,…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't…
— James D. Robinson III
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I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
— Catherine the Great
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The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater…
— Laurence Sterne
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Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good…
— Peter Drucker
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I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total…
— Richard Widmark
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
— Joseph Conrad
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Maoists want a directly elected president, but this will give birth to an autocrat.
— Sushil Koirala
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