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Art like life is an open secret.

Lawrence Durrell

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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
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The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours.
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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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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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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
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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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'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
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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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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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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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You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
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Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.
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To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.
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