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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
Lawrence Durrell
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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.
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I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
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