Lawrence Durrell Quote

It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.


Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series, ed. George Plimpton (1963)


It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.

It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.

It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.

It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.