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Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
Lawrence Durrell
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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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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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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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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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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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Art like life is an open secret.
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
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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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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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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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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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I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
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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.
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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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