Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. – Lawrence Durrell
Its only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness. – Lawrence Durrell
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. – Lawrence Durrell
It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness. – Fred Hoyle, Of Man and Galaxies