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.
D. H. LAWRENCEIf a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
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There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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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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I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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Never 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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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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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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