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It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.

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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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Art like life is an open secret.
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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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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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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An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
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How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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Truth disappears with the telling of it.
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It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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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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Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
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