Lawrence Durrell, (1912-1990), British Author Quotes

It's unthinkable not to love -- you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air Nelson stylites in Trafalgar square remind the British what once they were.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

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 fulfill it in its true potential -- the imagination.

It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

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.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.