Justine Lawrence Durrell Quotes & Sayings

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice. — Jerry Garcia

How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy. — Saul Bellow

When I went to see certain shows when I was a kid, they changed my life. They made me tap into that place inside myself that I was unable to get to, so music is that tool, that bridge, and that's the kind of music I'm interested in making. — Matisyahu

After all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh. — Lawrence Durrell

How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work. — Lawrence Durrell

Because if someone owed me several thousand, and then stole from my house, and then I found out he had the money and didn't pay me back, I'd be pretty pissed," Hackett said. — E.C. Diskin

sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, — George Eliot

Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go. — Cameron Russell

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

Break my heart? Is that what you just said? I have news for you; you didn't break my heart. My heart's fine. My heart's in the best shape of its life. You know what you did to me? You took an AK-47 and blew my soul open. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it. — Jonathan Coe

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes. — Josephine Tey

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom. — Abraham Verghese