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The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.
Lawrence Durrell
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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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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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The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
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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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Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
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Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
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A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.
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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.
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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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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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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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You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
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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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Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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