“No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.”

— Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet

The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Balthazar (1958)

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British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer 1912–1990

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