Quote

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.

Lawrence Durrell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
Autobiographer
Biographer
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Visual Artist
Writer
Jullundur
Filled
Brief
Steward
Stay
Customs
Clocks
Emotion
Stopped
Stewards
Hours
Flight
Hereditary
Language
Clock
Politeness
Made
According
Despotism
Ancient
Custom
Eternity
Reminded

More quotes by Lawrence Durrell

Image
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.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
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.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
Art like life is an open secret.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
Lawrence Durrell
Image
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
Image
How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
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.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
'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.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
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.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
Lawrence Durrell