Lawrence Durrell Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

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

“I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.”

“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.”

“Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.”