"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."

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Source : Lawrence Durrell (1991). “Clea”, Penguin Group USA

Lawrence Durrell

#Desire Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Bears Quotes

“It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.”
“Admitting your weaknesses does not diminish your strengths: it shows your courage.”
“I am not quite myself, I think.But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.”
“I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.”
“There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.”
“Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.”

Source : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”
“But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love.”

Source : Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.116, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.”

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