Geburtsdatum | Dienstag, 27. Februar 1912 |
Geburtsort | Punjab_Province_(British_India) |
Todesort | Sommières |
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Beschreibung | Lawrence George Durrell CBE (/ˈdʊərəl, ˈdʌr-/; 27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell. Born in India to British colonial parents, he was sent to England at the age of eleven for his education. He did not like formal education, but started writing poetry at age 15. His first book was published in 1935, when he was 23. In March 1935 he and his mother and younger siblings moved to the island of Corfu. Durrell spent many years thereafter living around the world. |
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
