I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation. — Lawrence Durrell Art Copy Share Image
“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
“the indifference of the natural world to the constructions of art” — 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
We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point. — Lawrence Durrell Comedy Copy Share Image
“...books everywhere piled up in heaps, the rare companions of a solitude not self-imposed but sought.” — Lawrence Durrell Book Copy Share Image
We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd. — Lawrence Durrell Absurd Copy Share Image
Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections. — Lawrence Durrell Affection Copy Share Image
I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to… — Lawrence Durrell Behavior Copy Share Image
Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were… — Lawrence Durrell Kisses Copy Share Image
No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village… — Lawrence Durrell Beauty Copy Share Image
Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out… — Lawrence Durrell Action 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
Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser… — Lawrence Durrell Enemy Copy Share Image
“We were like mourners at an invisible cenotaph during the two minutes’ silence which commemorates an irremediable failure of the human will.” — Lawrence Durrell Failure Copy Share Image
“There are some characters in this world who are marked down for self-destruction, and to these no amount of rational argument can… — Lawrence Durrell Self destruction Copy Share Image
“Her efforts to achieve herself had led her always towards, and not away from him.” — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“A puritan culture’s conception of art is something which will endorse its morality and flatter its patriotism.” — Lawrence Durrell Art Copy Share Image
“Let us go to bed together and ignore the loutish reality of the world.” — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“And morality is nothing if it is merely a form of good behavior.” — Lawrence Durrell Behavior Copy Share Image
“He loved the desert because there the wind blew out one's footsteps like candle flames.” — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively. — Lawrence Durrell Country Copy Share Image
It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. — Lawrence Durrell Breakdown Copy Share Image
“This world represents the promise of a unique happiness which we are not well-enough equipped to grasp.” — Lawrence Durrell Happiness Copy Share Image
Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“I love the French edition with its uncut pages. I would not want a reader too lazy to use a knife on… — Lawrence Durrell Books Copy Share Image
A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water. — Lawrence Durrell Cold Copy Share Image
Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work. — Lawrence Durrell Art 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
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine! — Lawrence Durrell 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 sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty. — Lawrence Durrell Beauty 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
“The telephone is a modern symbol for communications which never take place” — Lawrence Durrell Communication 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
