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It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
Lawrence Durrell
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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
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I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes in which one's glances sink because they are nervous, curious, turned to sexual curiosity.
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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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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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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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