Lawrence Durrell Quotes

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

With gamblers, it's never enough. You keep thinking on a conscious level that the prize is whatever the pot is. In poker, you may have a certain goal for the day. But the truth is, as soon as you win, more often than not the first thing that comes to mind is: If I'd bet more, I would have won more.

I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.

It's not that I will die, but if I stop partying, it will lead to extreme complications in my wellbeing.

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive.

Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.

I drink too much, I smoke too much, I take pills too much, I work too much, I girl around too much, I everything too much.

Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again.

It's very real, the narrow line between a night danced away and the potential of death around the corner.

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

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Las Vegas is a good place for people who like to make mistakes.

I do love to gamble; I hate to admit it.

Gamble until you die. I do not really care.

I think I bought into that whole rock n' roll lifestyle, and all that does in the end is kill ya. So I don't recommend it to anyone.

When you're willing to play poker for two days and lose millions of dollars, it's no longer recreation. It's taking over.

I'm an ambitious person. I mean, if I did that... I would self-destruct, in the sense that the decadence would be too strong an attraction for me. Whether that be in the form of gambling, fast cars, alcohol, drugs, whatever it happens to be... I think the lure of that lifestyle would be too strong.

How, like a moth, the simple maid Still plays around the flame!