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Lawrence Durrell Quotes

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

Lawrence Durrell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: February 27, 1912 - November 7, 1990

Topics

Truth Sickness Rest Desire Bear Out

It's been great that every title that we've done internally has been a huge success, but when you've got 50 or 100 people on there, all their families and everyone counting on you there, the idea of 'What if you screw up once?' or 'What if the market changes?'

Success Great People You Done Up

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Dreams Great Believe Plan Accomplish

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

Great Control Always Level

I enjoy high-speed about-turns in thought.

Thought Enjoy High-Speed

I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime.

Movies Crime Make Dear Oh Teenage

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

Stephen Hawking

Best World Cambridge Field

It is repugnant to an American to inform upon his fellow citizens.

American Citizens His Fellow Inform

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

Growth Science Time War Direction

Stand-up keeps you alive. It is definitely the most specialized field in comedy because you need to stay sharp and well-tuned every night.

Night Comedy You Alive Need Sharp

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

Think Be Different You Tie Different

It's difficult to keep in touch with someone when you're moving around all the time. I've decided that you can have it all, but you can't have it all, all of the time.

Miranda Richardson

Time Moving Someone You Difficult

The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.

Music Mirror I Am Poetry Roots Song

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