A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
Lawrence Durrell
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
Lawrence Durrell
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.
Lawrence Durrell
I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
Lawrence Durrell
I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
Lawrence Durrell
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Lawrence Durrell
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
It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.
Lawrence Durrell
It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
Lawrence Durrell
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
Music is only love looking for words.
Lawrence Durrell
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Lawrence Durrell
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
Lawrence Durrell
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
Lawrence Durrell
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
Lawrence Durrell
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
Lawrence Durrell
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
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Lawrence Durrell
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
They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.
Lawrence Durrell
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
Lawrence Durrell
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
Lawrence Durrell
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Type:
Writer
Date of Birth:
1912-01-27
Year of Death:
1990
Nationality:
British |
