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The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

Lawrence Durrell

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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.
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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
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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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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
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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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