"How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she……" — Lawrence Durrell
"How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work."
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93 Quotes by Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell has 93 quotes on this site.
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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or…
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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the…
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
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The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible…
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Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they…
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Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
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More Bitterly Quotes
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A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe…
— John Baillie
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O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of…
— Brigit of Kildare
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every…
— Doris Lessing
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The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate…
— Christiaan Barnard
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O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein…
— Thomas Carlyle
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I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise…
— Sarah Palin
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If you will believe me, you who are young, yours is the golden season of life. As you have heard…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of…
— Philip K. Chapman
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A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart,…
— Wilhelm II
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You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting…
— Sylvia Plath
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