About Lawrence Durrell: Lawrence George Durrell is the tetralogy The Alexandria Quartet.
An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
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.
We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.
Truth disappears with the telling of 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.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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.
Music is only love looking for words.
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
