Durrell, Lawrence
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Durrell, Lawrence
I m trying to die correctly, but it s very difficult, you know.
Durrell, Lawrence
Death and Dying
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.
Durrell, Lawrence
Charity
It s unthinkable not to love --you d have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you d have to be Philip Larkin.
Durrell, Lawrence
Love
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
Durrell, Lawrence
Heroes and Heroism
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
Durrell, Lawrence
Patriotism
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Durrell, Lawrence
Love
A woman s best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
Durrell, Lawrence
Letters
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.
Durrell, Lawrence
Travel and Tourism
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Durrell, Lawrence
Music
Music is only love looking for words.
Durrell, Lawrence
Music
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
Durrell, Lawrence
Truth
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
Durrell, Lawrence
Rebellion
Old age is an insult. It s like being smacked.
Durrell, Lawrence
Age and Aging
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.
Durrell, Lawrence
Arts and Artists
It s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.
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Vulgarity
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
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Women