Lawrence Durrell Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

Lawrence Durrell quotes and sayings page 2 (deceased writer born on Feb 27, 1912). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 25 we have for him.

“Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.”

“A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.”

“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.”

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

“I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.”

“We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.”

“Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.”

“Truth disappears with the telling of it.”

“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.”