Quotes by David Herbert Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence

English writer

Lived from: 1885 - 1930

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

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  • Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
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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.
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  • Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
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  • Now man cannot live without some vision of himself.
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  • Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
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  • One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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  • One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
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  • Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
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  • Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
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  • Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
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  • Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
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  • That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.
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  • The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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  • The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.
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  • The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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  • The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
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  • The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man.
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  • The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
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  • The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
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  • The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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