D. H. Lawrence Quotes

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D. H. Lawrence

Profession : Writer

Birth : September 11, 1885

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

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

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

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The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

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Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.

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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

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California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

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I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

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It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

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