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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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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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Truth disappears with the telling of it.
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We are the children of our landscape it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
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A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
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It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
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