Famous quotes containing the word durrell:
“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.”
—Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990)
“Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.”
—Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990)
“I’m trying to die correctly, but it’s very difficult, you know.”
—Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990)