“A million muffin-eating moralists were waiting, not for us, Brother Ass, but for the plucky and tedious Trollope!” — Lawrence Durrell Trollope Copy Share Image
I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation. — Lawrence Durrell Art Copy Share Image
They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh. — Lawrence Durrell Adversity Copy Share Image
Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“The world is like a cucumber—today it's in your hand, tomorrow up your arse.” — Lawrence Durrell Cucumber Copy Share Image
I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural. — Lawrence Durrell Approach Copy Share Image
“One word ‘love’ has to do service for so many different kinds of the same animal.” — Lawrence Durrell Animal Copy Share Image
You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect. — Lawrence Durrell Happiness Copy Share Image
I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair:… — 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 Art Copy Share Image
“The seeds of future events are carried within ourselves. They are implicit in us and unfold according to the laws of their… — Lawrence Durrell Future Copy Share Image
“These notes, however they may be read, are intended only as a painstaking affectionate commentary on a world into which I have… — Lawrence Durrell Books Copy Share Image
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by… — Lawrence Durrell Art Copy Share Image
“I long to be musical in body and mind. I want style, consort. Not the little mental squirts as if through the… — Lawrence Durrell Consort Copy Share Image
“He felt that his mind had become a battle-ground for the forces of good and evil and that his task was to… — Lawrence Durrell Evil Copy Share Image
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no… — Lawrence Durrell Approach Copy Share Image
We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“we who have travelled much and loved much: we who have -- I will not say suffered for we have always recognized… — Lawrence Durrell Friendship Copy Share Image
“and all at once it seemed that past and present had joined again without any divisions in it, and that all my… — Lawrence Durrell Past and present Copy Share Image
“No one thing can explain everything; though everything can illuminate something. God, I must be still drunk. If God were anything he… — Lawrence Durrell Art Copy Share Image
“The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time." Lawrence Durrell in "Clea," book three of the epic Alexandria… — Lawrence Durrell Love 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
“I suppose events are simply a sort of annotation of our feelings--the one might be deduced from the other. Time carries us… — Lawrence Durrell Feelings Copy Share Image
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. — Lawrence Durrell Comedy 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 Fairy tale Copy Share Image
The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty. — Lawrence Durrell Beauty Copy Share Image
“For all drama creates bondage, and the actor is only significant to the degree that he is bound.” — Lawrence Durrell Actor Copy Share Image
“The telephone is a modern symbol for communications which never take place” — Lawrence Durrell Communication Copy Share Image
“Words are the mirrors of our discontents merely; they contain all the huge unhatched eggs of the world's sorrows.” — Lawrence Durrell Language Copy Share Image
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat. — 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
