"They say that if you get bored enough……" — Lawrence Durrell

"They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh."

— Lawrence Durrell

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93 Quotes by Lawrence Durrell

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

Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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.

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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the… — Pietro Aretino
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying. — Andrea Arnold
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'… — Arthur Ashe
A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can… — Ibrahim Babangida
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. — Francis Bacon
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. — Francis Bacon
Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity. — Abu Bakr
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. — John Quincy Adams

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