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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Music is only love looking for words.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love l...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can ...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British wha...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love l...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two compani...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which ...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Truth disappears with the telling of it.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her i...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Lar...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Truth disappears with the telling of it
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Я говорил о бесполезности искусства, но ничего не сказ�...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd ...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat
LAWRENCE DURRELL

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Music is only love looking for words
LAWRENCE DURRELL

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which ...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness
LAWRENCE DURRELL

It is a pity indeed to travel and not get this essential sense of landscape values. You do not need ...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supern...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I ex...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in th...
LAWRENCE GEORGE DURRELL

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.
GERALD DURRELL

Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups...
GERALD DURRELL

A house is not a home until it has a dog.
GERALD DURRELL

I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ...
GERALD DURRELL

I said I _liked_ being half-educated; you were so much more _surprised_at everything when you were i...
GERALD DURRELL

Nothing except possibly love and death are of importance, & even the importance of death is somewhat...
GERALD DURRELL

Well, they're queer; but they're all very old, and so they're bound to be. But they're not mental,' ...
GERALD DURRELL

Sometimes the fresh load of guests would turn up before we had got rid of the previous group, and th...
GERALD DURRELL

She would seize every opportunity to dive into the bathroom, in a swirl of white towels, and once in...
GERALD DURRELL I'm upset at what he did. What he's saying is untrue. I would like to know why and how.
DURRELL BUSH She was overwhelmed that he and Lamont were getting along, she wanted them to have a good relationsh...
DURRELL BUSH You would think children are more important than your boyfriend.
DURRELL BUSH

If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I ...
GERALD DURRELL

They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that r...
GERALD DURRELL

My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gif...
GERALD DURRELL

It's all your fault, Mother,' said Larry austerely; 'you shouldn't have brought us up to be so selfi...
GERALD DURRELL We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, a...
VICKI LAWRENCE

In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evenin...
LAWRENCE WELK

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I did...
LAWRENCE WELK

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers...
LAWRENCE WELK

Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.
LAWRENCE WELK

Sounds always fascinated me.
LAWRENCE WELK

The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
LAWRENCE WELK

The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became ...
LAWRENCE WELK

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the count...
LAWRENCE WELK

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or...
LAWRENCE WELK

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
LAWRENCE WELK

For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. ...
LAWRENCE WELK

Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.
LAWRENCE WELK

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
LAWRENCE WELK

If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.
LAWRENCE WELK

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
LAWRENCE WELK

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
LAWRENCE WELK

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the mone...
LAWRENCE WELK

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
LAWRENCE WELK

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
LAWRENCE WELK

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finishe...
LAWRENCE WELK

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for ...
LAWRENCE WELK

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.
JENNIFER LAWRENCE I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.
VICKI LAWRENCE I am not a politician; I've never run for anything in my life. I'm an economist. I'm a b...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW The E.U.'s tax and regulatory policies, climate-change and welfare spending, and free immigratio...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Wars breed unfairness, just as they breed collateral damage.
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not kn...
D.H. LAWRENCE We were endowed by our Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happi...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Let's bring in Donald Trump. He wants to lower taxes across the board for individuals and large ...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and yo...
VICKI LAWRENCE There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to wo...
LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER

And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've sta...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off th...
VICKI LAWRENCE The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were real...
VICKI LAWRENCE It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to p...
VICKI LAWRENCE Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Bur...
VICKI LAWRENCE People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless th...
VICKI LAWRENCE Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
VICKI LAWRENCE Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
VICKI LAWRENCE I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a prett...
VICKI LAWRENCE There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you...
LAWRENCE TAYLOR On economic policy, Pence has held to the key building block of growth. He is a budget hawk who vote...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton...
CAROLINE LAWRENCE And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get int...
LAWRENCE TAYLOR In the 1980s and 1990s, radical change in economic policies fostered by Ronald Reagan and Margaret T...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign hi...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your hear...
LAWRENCE BIXBY

Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f...
MARK LAWRENCE Yes, there should be tough border security. Yes, there should be foolproof ID cards, with biometrics...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Great innovators like Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie didn't rely on governm...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

We’ll have to get you a sword,” I said. “When funds allow.”
Snorri shook his head. “A...
MARK LAWRENCE

Those were great big angry men with sharp swords actually wanting to cut pieces off me. It’s not u...
MARK LAWRENCE

It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefie...
MARK LAWRENCE

Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 As for the miseries and sins he heard of da...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least litt...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we se...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thér...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942 I have quitted all forms of devotion and set p...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

He said: that it was a Great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other t...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 You will tell me...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 Use yourself then by deg...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

He had no qualms; "for", said he, "when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, 'I am u...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual walk wit...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

[He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

One way to recall the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquility, is not...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 [He said:] That all possible kinds of mortification, if they ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Feast of Thomas the Apostle Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictio...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness o...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Youth and patience are foreign to one another.
R.J. LAWRENCE

It's easier to be wise for others than for yourself.
R.J. LAWRENCE

Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.
LAWRENCE LESSIG

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not...
D.H. LAWRENCE

[in the true mad north] of introspection,
where 'falcons of the inner eye'
dive and die, g...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
D.H. LAWRENCE

The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter o...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake u...
T.E. LAWRENCE

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE

Wearing overalls on weekdays, painting somebody else's house to earn money? You're working class. We...
LAWRENCE SUTTON

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.
HARDING LAWRENCE

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your hear...
LAWRENCE BIXBY

There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had bro...
MARK LAWRENCE

There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, ...
ELIZABETH LAWRENCE

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your hear...
LAWRENCE BIXBY

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more sui...
LAWRENCE BLOCK

The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or m...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
D.H. LAWRENCE

We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, a...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
D.H. LAWRENCE

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your acti...
LAWRENCE BLOCK

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your he...
LAWRENCE BIXBY

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off...
D.H. LAWRENCE

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake i...
T.E. LAWRENCE I am just going outside and may be some time.
LAWRENCE OATES

We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly,...
BROTHER LAWRENCE To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our mann...
LAWRENCE STERNE

I value my integrity. Which is why it has a price.
MARK LAWRENCE New WikiLeaks-provided e-mails from Clinton aide Doug Band reveal the true nature of the Clinton cas...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been ...
LAWRENCE KOHLBERG I have been accused of allegedly giving up my free-market principles in supporting some of Donald Tr...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in ...
LAWRENCE BENDER Does anybody remember, back in the depths of the recession of 1981-82, how President Reagan kept his...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady aroun...
LAWRENCE WELK

I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great...
LAWRENCE WELK Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. ...
LAWRENCE KUTNER

I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras maki...
SHARON LAWRENCE The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial...
LAWRENCE SUMMERS Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make...
LAWRENCE HARGRAVE

You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but fo...
MARTIN LAWRENCE

I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE

To each his own. You like what you like. If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE

If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a lit...
MARTIN LAWRENCE

I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver wh...
MARTIN LAWRENCE

I was a B.I.G. fan. I like all of his stuff. I don't really have a favorite song. They all are g...
MARTIN LAWRENCE

If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place a...
MARTIN LAWRENCE

We grew to know the meaning of love. That is what allowed me and my family to stay close together.
MARTIN LAWRENCE

You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say...
MARTIN LAWRENCE

Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with...
MARTIN LAWRENCE

I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?
MARTIN LAWRENCE

You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who wi...
MARTIN LAWRENCE

No one is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.
MARTIN LAWRENCE

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.
LAWRENCE WELK

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood i...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE

It's a curious thing that the mental life seems to flourish with its roots in spite, ineffable and f...
D.H. LAWRENCE

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze."

(Letter to Cyn...
D.H. LAWRENCE Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
VICKI LAWRENCE When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whate...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in ...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'A...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

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