Quotes by Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence Durrell

British Author

Lived from: 1912 - 1990

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 27 february 1912 Died: 7 november 1990

  • There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

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  • A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
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  • Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
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  • For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential, the imagination.
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  • I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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  • It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.
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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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  • Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will - whatever we may think.
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  • Music is only love looking for words.
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  • Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
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  • No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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  • Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
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  • Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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  • The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
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  • The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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  • There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
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  • Truth disappears with the telling of it.
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What are the most famous quotes from Lawrence Durrell?

The two most famous quotes from Lawrence Durrell are:

  • "A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying."
  • "Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist."

When did Lawrence Durrell live?

Lawrence Durrell was born in 1912 and died in the year 1990.