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Old age is an insult. Its like being smacked. - Lawrence Durrell

Old age is an insult. Its like being smacked. – Lawrence Durrell

Other quotes by Lawrence Durrell

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. – Lawrence Durrell

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Imagination
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Lawrence Durrell
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The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time… love lavished on absolute fools. Loves a charity ward, you know. – Lawrence Durrell

Category:
Women
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Other Quotes from
Age
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You have to be desirable. And thats why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, Why do women do this? Where do you go in your 50s in your career? – Kim Cattrall

Category:
Age

Ive lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point. – Liz Phair

Category:
Age

Old age is a lot of crossed off names in an address book. – Ronald Blythe

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Age

An old woman looks in a mirror, recalls a little girl with a rag doll, and wonders what became of the little girl. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Age

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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. – Nan Fairbrother

Category:
Humankind

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it – a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand – as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art. – Marc Chagall

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Art

The plans that I made when horizontal are working out now that I’m vertical. – Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com (2009 tweet, @wildthyme)

Category:
Morning

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else…was to be indifferent to that difference. – Al Capp

Category:
Differences