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
sex psychics people
Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach.
hands life-is-like cucumbers
Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
mirrors secret wish
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
air squares pillars
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
hero wine men
The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the bronze men, the philosophers - all of it seems to rise in the sour, pungent taste of these black olives between the teeth. A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
riches poverty cutters
Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
fire mind ignite
It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
dark cities echoes
No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct left to rust, Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.
women animal burrowing
Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.
artist littles today
All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.
love growing divides
Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
criticism literature worms
A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.
adversity bored laughing
They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh.
loneliness being-alone night
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.