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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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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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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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The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
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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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How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
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Truth is what most contradicts itself.
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Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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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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