Lawrence Durrell - Work Quotes

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Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.

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The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you...

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How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.

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After all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh.

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The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn.

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