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Lawrence Durrell Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other Picture Quote #1

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it Picture Quote #1

It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness Picture Quote #1

The artist’s work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn Picture Quote #1

These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their own kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean Picture Quote #1

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Life is like a cucumber. One minute it’s in your hand, the next it’s up you ass Picture Quote #1

After all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh Picture Quote #1

A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced Picture Quote #1

Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged Picture Quote #1

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I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural Picture Quote #1

How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work Picture Quote #1

The realisation of one’s own death is the point at which one becomes adult Picture Quote #1

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left Picture Quote #1

Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s Picture Quote #1

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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 Quotes) Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other (Lawrence Durrell Quotes) We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it (Lawrence Durrell Quotes) It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness (Lawrence Durrell Quotes) The artist’s work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn (Lawrence Durrell Quotes) These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their own kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean (Lawrence Durrell Quotes) Life is like a cucumber. One minute it’s in your hand, the next it’s up you ass (Lawrence Durrell Quotes) After all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh (Lawrence Durrell Quotes) A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love (Lawrence Durrell Quotes) 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 Quotes) I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced (Lawrence Durrell Quotes) Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged (Lawrence Durrell Quotes) I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural (Lawrence Durrell Quotes) How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work (Lawrence Durrell Quotes) The realisation of one’s own death is the point at which one becomes adult (Lawrence Durrell Quotes) An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left (Lawrence Durrell Quotes) Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s (Lawrence Durrell Quotes)

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