Lawrence Durrell Quotes

What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.

Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes I think 'The Taxi Ride' embarrasses me, because sometimes I think it's too close.

A lot of what I write is very personal.

I write about so much personal stuff, it's like reading my diary.

We hide the truer part of ourselves when we love.

The very idea of printing my diary has always struck me as completely superficial.

I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary.

You can't always tell when someone's keeping something inside and not really happy.

I think books should have secrets, like people do.

I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature to protect, because there are times when what is public and what is private must be discerned.

I won't get into it any more than to say that there are parts of me in all the songs that I write.

People think I'm laid back, but there's a lot going on in my head.

My compositions are, I would say, like pages ripped from a diary that I don't really want to share, but that I almost feel the need to share. It's a way for me to get things out that I can't get out in life, you know, in real regular conversation with people.

I don't really like to talk about what my songs are about.

Writing on 'Love' is so steeped in self-analysis. The writer's room can feel like therapy.

As a work gets more autobiographical, more intimate, more confessional, more embarrassing, it breaks into fragments.

Im okay Im okay now. But you really need to listen to me 'cause im telling you the truth I mean this im okay Trust me... Im not okay ...Well okay im not okay. Im not o-f cking-kay

I want to know all of you, Kitten. What you show me, and what you try not to.

My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.

It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.

A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself—if they could live in my memories—would anyone, anyone, love me?