Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
Lawrence Durrell
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
Lawrence Durrell
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.
Lawrence Durrell
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.
Lawrence Durrell
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Lawrence Durrell
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
Lawrence Durrell
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