Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
D. H. LAWRENCEYou’re always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them–
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If you could only tell them that living and spending isn’t the same thing! But it’s no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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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Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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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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The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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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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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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That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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