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Lawrence George Durrell (February 27, 1912 November 7, 1990) was a British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan. He was born in India and, at the age of eleven, was sent to attend school in England a country in which he was never happy and which he left as soon as possible. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

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

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"Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were."

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"A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying."

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

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"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."

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"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."

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"Music is only love looking for words."

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"Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist."

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"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."

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

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