Man is a mistake. He must go.
D. H. LAWRENCENever trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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You’re spending your life without renewing it. You’ve got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You’re spending your vitality without making any. Can’t go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
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You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
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But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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