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"I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze."

Lawrence, D. H. on writers and writing    Share

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"I believe a man is born first unto himself --for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers."

Lawrence, D. H. on adulthood    Share

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"Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life."

Lawrence, D. H. on life    Share

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"Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage."

Lawrence, D. H. on civilization    Share

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"They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls."

Lawrence, D. H. on colleges and universities    Share

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"The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death."

Lawrence, D. H. on consciousness    Share

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"I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self."

Lawrence, D. H. on conversion    Share

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"Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it."

Lawrence, D. H. on criticism    Share

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