Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence George Durrellwas an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 February 1912
love nervous breakdown
It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
travel journey form
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
beauty matter subjective
The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.
love anniversary valentines-day
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
best demands flower inward lead outward
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.
heart soul desire
Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul
fall snow bird
Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow.
believe reality confirmation
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.
country patriotic artist
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
men law way
Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.