Quotes by
Lawrence Durrell |
1912-1990 , British writer
He supported his writing by working for many years in the Foreign Service of the British government. His sojourns in various places during and after World War II inspired much of his work. His most famous work is The Alexandria Quartet, a tetralogy published between 1957 and 1960. The best-known novel in the series is the first, Justine.
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Quotations
| • | Gamblers and lovers really play to lose. 6 |
| • | There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. 4 |
| • | An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left. 3 |
| • | Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down. 3 |
| • | It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else. 2 |
| • | Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called “right” person always comes to soon or too late. 2 |
| • | Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul. 2 |
| • | Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass. 2 |
| • | 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. 2 |
