Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence George Durrellwas an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 February 1912
history historical way
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
happiness laughter men
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
art pain memories
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.
wine glasses paris
The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.
heart wonder show-me
Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.
truth ladders matter
Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.
love cities world
A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
dog party names
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.
artist raw-materials materials
Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
art destiny people
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.
children land landscape
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
art impact doe
The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you...
silence doe quiet
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
inspirational funny music
Music is only love looking for words.