Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“But then is not life itself a fairy-tale which we lose the power of apprehending as we grow? No matter.” — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“I hunt everywhere for a life worth living. Perhaps if I could die or go mad it would provide a focus for… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Any concentration of the will displaces life and gives it bias in motion. Reality, he believed, was always trying to copy the… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I have decided to leave Clea’s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share
“Suddenly at the end of the great couloir my vision is sharpened by a pale disjunctive shudder as a bar of buttercup-yellow thickening gradually… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share
To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share
The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share
It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share
“He felt that his mind had become a battle-ground for the forces of good and evil and that his task was to strain every… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share
Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share
We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time -… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share
It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share
“God did not create us, nor did He wish us to be created. We are the work of a lesser deity, a demiurge, who… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is so brief,… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share
“The slither of tyres across the waves of the desert under a sky blue and frost-bound in winter; or in summer a fearful lunar… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share
