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Truth is what most contradicts itself.

Lawrence Durrell

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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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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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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 suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
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Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow.
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Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
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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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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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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.
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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 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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Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.
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The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
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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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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
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