Lawrence DurrellThinkers

Art is an open secret.

The City is a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

Landscape is a kind of parentage — We are the children of our landscape: it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

Landscape is influential in our worldview — We are the children of our landscape.

Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.

Music is love looking for words.

Music is something invented to confirm human loneliness.

Place is influential in our worldview — We are the children of our landscape.

The Poem is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.

Travel is often one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

Truth is never, in fact, really wanted. 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.

Truth is what most contradicts itself.