Lawrence Durrell Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Believe, Reality, Confirmation

• Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Art, Pain, Memories

• We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Reality, Missing, Way

• 'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Writing, Unique, Reality

  "The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea".

• To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Reality, Danger, Equal

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