#thin

There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#catch #five #hit #only #power

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#her #into #literature #love #only

You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#argue #because #else #nothing #umpire

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#approach #aware #become #companions #had

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn. ↗

— Robin Trower

#born #gift #learn #make #music

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#absolute #appalling #capable #charity #degree

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#energy #lot #neurosis #novel #really

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#born #circumstances #contribute #determined #differing

As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#device #honestly #i #immortality #inventor

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#coexistence #created #critical #critically #entity