"We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey……" — Lawrence Durrell
"We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point."
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93 Quotes by Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell has 93 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
- Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
- Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.
- No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
- Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or…
- It is not peace we seek but meaning.
- The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the…
- Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
- It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
- The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible…
- Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they…
- Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
More Jokey Quotes
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