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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
Lawrence Durrell
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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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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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To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
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The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
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I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.
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The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours.
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I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
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Truth is what most contradicts itself.
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You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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