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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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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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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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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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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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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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All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
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Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.
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