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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
Lawrence Durrell
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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
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Art like life is an open secret.
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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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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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Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
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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.
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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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The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
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Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds
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All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
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The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.
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There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.
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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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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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