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It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
Lawrence Durrell
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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow.
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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.
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People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.
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Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
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Truth disappears with the telling of it.
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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.
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Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds
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It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
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I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes in which one's glances sink because they are nervous, curious, turned to sexual curiosity.
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There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.
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I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
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