Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
D. H. LAWRENCEWhat one does in one’s art, that is the breath of one’s being. What one does in one’s life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
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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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I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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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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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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