Lawrence Durrell Quotes - Page 5

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• The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

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  Art, Emotion, Audience

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.265, Faber & Faber

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• Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

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  Riches, Poverty, Cutters

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

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• The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours."

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  Emotion, Language, Flight

  "Balthazar".

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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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  Squares, Air, Pillars

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “Collected Poems 1931-74”, p.48, Faber & Faber

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• A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.

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  Criticism, Literature, Worms

  Lawrence Durrell (2015). “The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx”, p.193, Faber & Faber

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• They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.

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  Flower, Space, Inward

  Lawrence Durrell (2011). “Bitter Lemons of Cyprus”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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