"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."

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Source : Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.14, Faber & Faber

Lawrence Durrell

#Art Quotes #Destiny Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“Silence is not lost time.”
“Delhi is my emotional home. I still dream of owning a home there.”
“Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the world; I believe that, in constantly bombarding Him with requests for miracles, we're also asking that He unravel the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would be a cartoon, not a world.”
“The biggest problem in politics is that you help some S.O.B. get what he wants and then he throws you out of the train.”
“I've got some cool features with some cool people coming out but I can't speak on it right now.”

Source : Source: youknowigotsoul.com
“â€ŽThe party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.”
“The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.”
“I'd love to have a shoe line, or a sunglasses line, or a purse line. Who am I kidding, I'd like to have an everything line!”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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