There are only three things to be done with a woman. You ca… - Lawrence Durrell

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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

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Lawrence George Durrell (27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan. It has been posthumously suggested that Durrell never had British citizenship, though, more accurately, he became defined as a non-patrial in 1968, due to the amendment to the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962. His most famous work is the Alexandria Quartet. His brother was Gerald Durrell.

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He had at last discovered that love had no pith in it, and that the projection of one own's feelings upon the images of a beloved was in the long run, an act of self-mutilation.

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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

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