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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
Lawrence Durrell
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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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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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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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Truth disappears with the telling of 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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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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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
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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.
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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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