Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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entry. PAUL DICKSON Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended
it to happen. PAUL DICKSON Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to
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there is a problem. PAUL DICKSON A clean tie attracts the soup of the day. PAUL DICKSON Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a
mistake when you make it again. PAUL DICKSON About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the
ends. PAUL DICKSON Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts
absolutely. PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a
problem, it always helps if you know the ... PAUL DICKSON Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end
of the tunnel is the headlight of ... PAUL DICKSON Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the
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going down the drain than to be c... PAUL DICKSON Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane
you want to transfer to is on time... PAUL DICKSON Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice
that is desired. PAUL DICKSON Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a
time. PAUL DICKSON A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. PAUL DICKSON Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than
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LAWRENCE It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of... D. H. LAWRENCE The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intui... D. H. LAWRENCE Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with se... D. H. LAWRENCE For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly... D. H. LAWRENCE It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. D. H. LAWRENCE The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. D. H. LAWRENCE The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A moralit... D. H. LAWRENCE But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness an... D. H. LAWRENCE Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that. - Selected Essays. D. H. LAWRENCE Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and belie... D. H. 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. LAWRENCE This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us... D. H. LAWRENCE But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness... D. H. LAWRENCE And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain... D. H. LAWRENCE Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say,... D H LAWRENCE Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. D. H. LAWRENCE My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily. D. H. LAWRENCE The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intu... D H LAWRENCE For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intui... D H LAWRENCE Men can such the heady juice of exalted self-importance from the bitter weed of failure--failures ar... D. H. LAWRENCE I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever ha... D. H. LAWRENCE How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. D. H. LAWRENCE For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuit... D. H. LAWRENCE One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in... D. H. LAWRENCE But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. D. H. LAWRENCE Never trust the teller. Trust the tale. D. H. LAWRENCE The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitut... D. H. LAWRENCE They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. D. H. LAWRENCE A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping ... D. H. LAWRENCE I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about... D. H. LAWRENCE Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the crea... D. H. LAWRENCE One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are lik... D. H. LAWRENCE The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a ... D. H. LAWRENCE It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is... D. H. LAWRENCE I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. D. H. LAWRENCE The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. D. H. LAWRENCE Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks... D. H. LAWRENCE The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. D. H. LAWRENCE Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means. D. H. LAWRENCE Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering. D. H. LAWRENCE The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable o... D. H. LAWRENCE I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, t... D. H. LAWRENCE Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. D. H. LAWRENCE The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more. D. H. LAWRENCE The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity. D. H. LAWRENCE The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a go... D. H. LAWRENCE This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. ... D. H. LAWRENCE Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always ... D. H. LAWRENCE Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only ... D. H. LAWRENCE Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them. D. H. LAWRENCE I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps. D. H. LAWRENCE California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void P... D. H. LAWRENCE One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be maste... D. H. 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. LAWRENCE Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life. D. H. LAWRENCE My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live marr... D. H. LAWRENCE I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my ... D. H. LAWRENCE Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. D. H. LAWRENCE People always make war when they say they love peace. D. H. LAWRENCE I shall always be a priest of love. D. H. LAWRENCE Money is our madness, our vast collective madness. D. H. LAWRENCE My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily. D. H. LAWRENCE I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a wo... D. H. LAWRENCE Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion. D. H. LAWRENCE I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel... D. H. LAWRENCE