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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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I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
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Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
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Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
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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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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.
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I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.
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The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.
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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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