Quotes by David Herbert Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence

English writer

Lived from: 1885 - 1930

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

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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.
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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 cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?
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  • I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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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 like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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  • I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.
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  • I shall always be a priest of love.
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  • I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
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  • If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
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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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  • It's the man who dares to take who is independent, not he who gives.
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  • Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.
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  • Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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  • Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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  • My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
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  • My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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  • My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
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