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Lawrence Durrell
"It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind."
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Source : Lawrence Durrell (2015). “The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx”, p.170, Faber & Faber
Lawrence Durrell
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“Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.”
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“Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.”
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“Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.”
Source : Carson McCullers (1998). “Clock Without Hands”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“When people try to read between the lines - critics, they have a job. Their job is to make something bigger than it is.”
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“I remember we [with Donald Trump] were sitting in a meeting and he walked in and he looked at me and he said - maybe five or six of us in there - and he said, "Are you the first woman to ever run a presidential campaign?" And so the guys in the room said, "First Republican woman." And I said - you know, I always think of Susan Estrich and Mary Kay and Donna Brazile, and respect them enormously; know one of them very well. And I said, "Well, I'm the first Republican one."”
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“I train for about 30 hours a week. That's at least four hours every day. I swim at seven most mornings. It's got to be your life. You've got to fit everything around it. If that's all you know and it's what you love to do then it's got loads of positives as well.”
Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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“The center of salvation is the Cross of Jesus, and the reason it is so easy to obtain salvation is because it cost God so much.”
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“When we preach Christ crucified, we have no reason to stammer, or stutter, or hesitate, or apologize; there is nothing in the gospel of which we have any cause to be ashamed.”
