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Lawrence Durrell Quotes

Lawrence Durrell quotes

British Writer January 27, 1912 – November 7, 1990

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Lawrence Durrell quote: "But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling..."
But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell quote: "A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants."
A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants. Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell quote: "He loved the desert because there the wind blew out one's..."
He loved the desert because there the wind blew out one's footsteps like candle flames. Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell quote: "Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass."
Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass. 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 have decided to leave Clea’s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of life in terms of compacts, resolutions, covenants. It will be up to Clea to interpret my silence according to her own needs and desires, to come to me if she has need or not, as the case may be. Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us? Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell quote: "Art like life is an open secret."
Art like life is an open secret. Lawrence Durrell
Any concentration of the will displaces life and gives it bias in motion. Reality, he believed, was always trying to copy the imagination of man, from which it derived. Lawrence Durrell
I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong? Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell quote: "Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than..."
Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell quote: "Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the..."
Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass. Lawrence Durrell
We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time - not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed. Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell quote: "I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie..."
I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory. Lawrence Durrell
I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes in which one's glances sink because they are nervous, curious, turned to sexual curiosity. Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell quote: "You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the..."
You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect. Lawrence Durrell

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