Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence George Durrellwas an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 February 1912
Lawrence Durrell quotes about
happiness laughter men
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
loneliness ambition pride
The loved object is simply one that has shared an experience at the same moment of time, narcissistically; and the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simply to let the two experiences compare themselves, like reflections in different mirrors. All this may precede the first look, kiss, or touch; precede ambition, pride, or envy; precede the first declarations which mark the turning point—for from here love degenerates into habit, possession, and back to loneliness.
love jealousy envy
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
memories lying hair
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.
flower space demand
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.
french-culture culture
All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
kissing lovers unsaid
Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds
anxiety technique poetry-is
Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.
wine water taste
A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
moving artist paint
I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
travel real eye
Try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling, that mysterious sense of rapport, of identity with the ground. You can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle you'll be there.
land europe brazil
Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.
memories men misfortunes
The memory of man is as old as misfortune
events baskets crabs
But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket