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
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 anniversary valentines-day
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
artist raw-materials materials
Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
wine glasses paris
The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.
music lonely loneliness
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
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.
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
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.
land europe brazil
Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.
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.