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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
Lawrence Durrell
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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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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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It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
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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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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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Art like life is an open secret.
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Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
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We are the children of our landscape it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
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