At 88 years old - with every intention of living decades longer - I'm still running a company, writing articles, launching new ventures, and fully enjoying life.


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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
I can't do with mountains at close quarters -- they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, n...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are lik...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness an...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himsel...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
I don't like your miserable lonely single front name. It is so limited, so meager; it has no versati...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much mor...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks c...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffin...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, a...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations ba...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in the people. One class is no better than an...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
God is only a great imaginative experience.
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I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But i...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me, That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, an...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself;
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
I believe a man is born first unto himself --for the happy developing of himself, while the world is...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an abs...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment comp...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my a...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
I love Italian opera -- it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn De...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
Museums, museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeolo...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
The moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she a...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the crea...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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