Lawrence Durrell Quotes

British - Writer | February 27, 1912 - November 7, 1990

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

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I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

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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.

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

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A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.

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We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

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