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I left New York after my mother died and, rather aimlessly, had settled in Istanbul for a change of scene. It was a rather dramatic gesture on my part, since I'd lived in New York for 20 years, but I felt I needed something different - the escalating expense and pressure of New York had begun to weary me.
- Lawrence Osborne
#Change
#Me
#Mother
#New
#Pressure
Exams are not very hard. People find them hard because they don't work - it's just a matter of labour. Once you actually start doing it, it's like cracking eggs. You don't need to be smart. As everything is in life, it's about concentration.
- Lawrence Osborne
#Doing
#Life
#Smart
#Start
#Work
My grandfather was an amazing cap-in-hand guy.
- Lawrence Osborne
#Amazing
#Grandfather
#Guy
My parents were decent, aspirant first-generation middle class. They read 'Reader's Digest', listened to classical music; my grandparents had a bust of Stalin on the mantelpiece. The kids of that generation were terrified of being below par, class-wise.
- Lawrence Osborne
#Generation
#Middle Class
#Music
#Parents
'The Odyssey' is a great poem to refugee-dom... Odysseus is not entirely a refugee... he's somebody who's blown off course. The entire book is an exploration of that theme... I reread it every year... That's not as surprising as it sounds, because it's a rip-roaring book.
- Lawrence Osborne
#Book
#Every
#Exploration
#Great
#Theme
One of the reasons I like living in Bangkok is that, although it's a megacity, it's very saturated with nature - the vast and brooding skies, the sudden storms and rains, the vegetation and even the animals that abound.
- Lawrence Osborne
#Animals
#Like
#Living
#Nature
#Sudden
Asa Briggs was a historian of class history, so he felt obligated to bring in his driver. That's the English class thing that is much weaker now.
- Lawrence Osborne
#Bring
#Class
#He
#History
#Now
The orchid's association in Chinese culture with such virtues as elegance, good taste, friendship, and fertility goes all the way back to Confucius himself, who was said to have a particular attachment to the flowers.
- Lawrence Osborne
#Culture
#Friendship
#Good
#Virtues
#Way
Arak means 'sweat' in Arabic, and it is the perfect Mediterranean after-dinner drink, in my opinion.
- Lawrence Osborne
#Drink
#Means
#Opinion
#Perfect
#Sweat
Sometimes you can publish a first novel in a kind of lyrical flourish, but it is not really a lyrical form. The beautiful truths about the world are more hard won than that. Novels should be bleach boned. It's a question of cumulative observation and lived suffering. It takes time.
- Lawrence Osborne
#Beautiful
#Hard
#Suffering
#Time
#World
The best times to visit the Gobi and Three Camel Lodge are June, and September through October. By the beginning of November, it is ferociously cold, while October can swing surreally between warm days and clear, chilly nights and frosty mornings dusted with snow - perfect.
- Lawrence Osborne
#Beginning
#Best
#Camel
#Perfect
#Three
I don't know where this thing about me being a travel writer comes from. It's nothing to do with me; I hate travel writing. I don't do it - I do it a little bit, but not much. I don't believe in it. I think it's over. The world is so saturated now that you don't need it.
- Lawrence Osborne
#Believe
#Hate
#Me
#Travel
#World
Bangkok is infamously mired in lurid contradiction, but it's also a city of subtle and distorted moods that journalism and film have hitherto mostly failed to capture.
- Lawrence Osborne
#City
#Film
#Journalism
#Moods
#Subtle
Thailand was never a European colony, so even though the city is very Western on the surface, deep down it's very Asian. It's quite enigmatic, and I like that. I can't get to the bottom of Bangkok, and I never will.
- Lawrence Osborne
#City
#Deep
#Down
#Never
#Will
I'll wager there isn't a human being on earth who doesn't believe in luck, however rational they pretend to be in public life. In reality, most of human life is luck - and, of course, its darker, more prevalent opposite. One only has to live long enough to experience both.
- Lawrence Osborne
#Experience
#Life
#Long
#Luck
#Reality
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