Famous Quotes / Lawrence Durrell
19 Quotations by Lawrence Durrell
- 1. A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
- 2. Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
- 3. For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in ...
- 4. History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living
- 5. I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
- 6. It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd ...
- 7. It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can ...
- 8. It's unthinkable not to love -- you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip La ...
- 9. Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them ...
- 10. Music is only love looking for words.
- 11. Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
- 12. No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
- 13. No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
- 14. Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British wha ...
- 15. Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
- 16. The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love l ...
- 17. The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
- 18. There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her i ...
- 19. Truth disappears with the telling of it.