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

Durrell, Lawrence on Age and Aging
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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."

Durrell, Lawrence on Heroes and Heroism
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"A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying."

Durrell, Lawrence on Letters
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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."

Durrell, Lawrence on Love
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"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."

Durrell, Lawrence on Love
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"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."

Durrell, Lawrence on Music
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"Music is only love looking for words."

Durrell, Lawrence on Music
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"Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist."

Durrell, Lawrence on Patriotism
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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."

Durrell, Lawrence on Arts and Artists
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"No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat."

Durrell, Lawrence on Rebellion
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"The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know."

Durrell, Lawrence on Charity
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"Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think."

Durrell, Lawrence on Travel and Tourism
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"Truth disappears with the telling of it."

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

Durrell, Lawrence on Vulgarity
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"There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature."

Durrell, Lawrence on Women
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"I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know."

Durrell, Lawrence on Death and Dying
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