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• Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. -- Lawrence Durrell
• Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
• Original quip on the space telescope we all like so much.
  A few articles were posted in sci.astro.hubble but nobody could read them....
• Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth.
  But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on 't, in the world, than they are....
• Our inventions mirror our secret wishes. -- Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990), Mountolive (1959) 7
• 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...
• For what it's worth, I understand your bitterness. With respect sir, you cannot.
  I am asked to give up the very lifeblood of my mother and my father to those who murdered them....
• Our journeys to the stars will be made on spaceships created by determined
  hardworking scientists and engineers applying the principles of science, not aboard flying saucers piloted by little gray aliens from some other dimension....
• Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
  -- Goethe...