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Lawrence Durrell

"No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat."

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"No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat."

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"I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I'll go online and I'll buy my books at Amazon.com, but I don't want to buy all of them because I want to go to Duttons and I want to buy books from another human being."

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"Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11."

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"I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused."

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"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it."

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"There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while."

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"Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?"

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"Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved."

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"I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it."

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"When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book."

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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

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"Truth disappears with the telling of it."
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