Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence George Durrellwas an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 February 1912
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mirrors evil done
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?
secret approach idleness
I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
wish diaries paper
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.
emotion language flight
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours. God made eternity. Let us escape from the despotism of time altogether." These ancient and hereditary politenesses filled Nessim with emotion.
play lovers loses
Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.
love-life long breathe
I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!
love-is enemy warfare
Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.
travel artist journey
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.
long goes-on revolution
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
law dating giving
Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.
wine spite desirable
Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
insult-to-injury age insult
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
ideas bird branches
An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
writing unique reality
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.