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.
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.
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
hands life-is-like cucumbers
Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
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.
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.
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.
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.