Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence George Durrellwas an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 February 1912
cute-love love nervous philip severe
It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
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.
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 men letters
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
play lovers loses
Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.
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
love growing divides
Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
love jealousy envy
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
love cities world
A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
love nervous breakdown
It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
love anniversary valentines-day
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
behavior children dictates measure responsive
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it
women charity fool
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
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.