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Lawrence Durrell Quotes

Lawrence Durrell quote: "I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie..."

I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.

Lawrence Durrell

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Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt
I wanted to be a theater actress, but I thought it would be easier to get to New York and the theater if I had a name than if I just walked the streets as a little girl from California. Gloria Stuart
I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that. Colin Farrell
Louis L'Amour quote: "The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance."
The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance. Louis L'Amour
Loni Anderson quote: "Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them."
Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them. Loni Anderson
How can you care for a rough man like me?' he asked me. 'How can you love a man who can bring you no lands but the farm a soldier's pension can buy? Who can give your children no title of nobility?' Because love does not do sums, I should have told him. Love makes choices, and then gives its all. Had he seen himself as I first saw him though, he could have had no questions. Tad Williams
Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation. Rick Perry
Teachers must, I discovered, have a gift to teach and the compulsion to use it. And faith. Anything less won't carry you through. Robert Adams
Why are you so interested in amoebas?"Oh, they're immortal," he said, "and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being aperson is getting too complicated. Margaret Atwood
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Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Bruce Barton quote: "When you're through changing, you're through."
When you're through changing, you're through. Bruce Barton
But soon," he cried, with sad and solemn enthusiasm, "I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pyre triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system. Kalpana Chawla
John Keats quote: "And how they kist each other's tremulous eyes."
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