Quote by Lawrence Durrell
Its only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement

Its only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness. – 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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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

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Women
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Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity
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My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. – Edward Gibbon

Here is the piece. If you cant say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment. – Ernest Hemingway

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I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed. – Amber Heard

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Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication. – Karen Black

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communication

The thing I care about is my weight – Im as fanatical about it as a member of Girls Aloud. I weigh myself every morning. I know exactly what I want to be – 82kg – and I try to stick to it. – Tony Parsons

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Morning

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way. – Frank Moore Colby