It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

Quote by Lawrence Durrell

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

Music is only love looking for words

Music is only love looking for words

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it...

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it...

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to...

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to...

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time...

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time...

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

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

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

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.

A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them,...

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them,...

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her,...

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her,...

I have gotten a lot more attention than...other women that I find incredibly beautiful. And...

I have gotten a lot more attention than...other women that I find incredibly beautiful. And...

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way...

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way...