Lawrence Durrell Professions : Novelist Born : February 27, 1912 Died : November 7, 1990 Browse All Authors Top 109 quotes by Lawrence Durrell Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow. Lawrence Durrell snow bird fall Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down. Lawrence Durrell warfare love-is enemy Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie. Lawrence Durrell punishment guilt lying All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness. Lawrence Durrell artist littles today Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass. Lawrence Durrell gravitation mass sorrow Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals. Lawrence Durrell burrowing women animal It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness. Lawrence Durrell There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. Lawrence Durrell I imagine, therefore I belong and am free. Lawrence Durrell belong free imagine imagination Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors