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Comedians are the nearest to suicide.

Lawrence Durrell

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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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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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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
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Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
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To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
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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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Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
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How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct left to rust, Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.
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