Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence George Durrellwas an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 February 1912
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.
believe hunting reason
We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
love nervous breakdown
It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
travel journey form
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
beauty matter subjective
The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.
love anniversary valentines-day
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.