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We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not kn...
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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not...
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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off...
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It's a curious thing that the mental life seems to flourish with its roots in spite, ineffable and f...
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze."

(Letter to Cyn...
D.H. LAWRENCE The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
D.H. LAWRENCE The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is...
D.H. LAWRENCE The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a...
D.H. LAWRENCE Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
D.H. LAWRENCE We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
D.H. LAWRENCE And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he ...
D.H. LAWRENCE The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.
D.H. LAWRENCE Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too ...
D.H. LAWRENCE In every living thing there is the desire for love.
D.H. LAWRENCE It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. ...
D.H. LAWRENCE The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.
D.H. LAWRENCE Only now it had become indispensable to him to have her face pressed close to him; he could never le...
D.H. LAWRENCE I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets
D.H. LAWRENCE The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the w...
D.H. LAWRENCE When genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot
D.H. LAWRENCE Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the crea...
D.H. LAWRENCE Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death...
D.H. LAWRENCE All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with t...
D.H. LAWRENCE Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
D.H. LAWRENCE I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a wom...
D.H. LAWRENCE And down his mouth comes to my mouth! and down His bright dark eyes come over me, like a hood Upon m...
D.H. LAWRENCE The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
D.H. LAWRENCE Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
D.H. LAWRENCE It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition ...
D.H. LAWRENCE No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb unless the lamb is inside.
D.H. LAWRENCE When I want to move, I remember death, how it is ultimate and inevitable, and pure. Then I am free t...
D.H. LAWRENCE The feelings I don't have I don't have.
The feelings I don't have, I won't say I have.
The...
D.H. LAWRENCE no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love ha...
D.H. LAWRENCE There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, a...
D.H. LAWRENCE Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight ...
D.H. LAWRENCE One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is alw...
D.H. LAWRENCE Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the univer...
D.H. LAWRENCE On revient toujours a son premier amour." It sounds like a cynicism to-day. As if we really meant: "...
D.H. LAWRENCE Yes, I do believe in something. I believe in being warm-hearted. I
believe especially in being ...
D.H. LAWRENCE It [Mexico] is a country where men despise sex, and live for it,' said Ramón. 'Which is suicide.'
D.H. LAWRENCE God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, ...
D.H. LAWRENCE The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ethe...
D.H. LAWRENCE Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within....
D.H. LAWRENCE Life is ours to be spent, not to
be saved.
D.H. LAWRENCE When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in ...
D.H. 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. LAWRENCE I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
D.H. LAWRENCE For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
D.H. LAWRENCE The English kill off all their poets by the time they're forty
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 The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a go...
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 still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, a...
D.H. LAWRENCE When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
D.H. LAWRENCE One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
D.H. LAWRENCE The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
D.H. LAWRENCE Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
D.H. LAWRENCE If only we could have two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, which seem as if they ha...
D.H. LAWRENCE You don't want to love--your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you'r...
D.H. LAWRENCE After all, the world is not a stage -- not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And a...
D.H. LAWRENCE I would have loved it - without the French
D.H. LAWRENCE The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D.H. LAWRENCE My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.
D.H. LAWRENCE Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.
D.H. LAWRENCE No man is or can be purely individual. The mass of men have only the tiniest touch of individuality:...
D.H. LAWRENCE You may be the most liberal Liberal Englishman, and yet you cannot fail to see the categorical diffe...
D.H. LAWRENCE If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule
D.H. LAWRENCE I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations ba...
D.H. LAWRENCE The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.
D.H. LAWRENCE Blood is wiser than head.
D.H. LAWRENCE Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea o...
D.H. LAWRENCE One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is a...
D.H. LAWRENCE We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a grea...
D.H. LAWRENCE Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
D.H. LAWRENCE It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.
D.H. LAWRENCE Is it the secret of the long-nosed Etruscans?/ The long-nosed, sensitive footed, subtly-smiling Etru...
D.H. LAWRENCE But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
D.H. LAWRENCE One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be mere rushing on.
D.H. LAWRENCE To the Puritan all things are impure.
D.H. LAWRENCE The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer
D.H. LAWRENCE Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it ...
D.H. LAWRENCE The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and...
D.H. LAWRENCE I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze
D.H. LAWRENCE Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.
D.H. LAWRENCE For God’s sake, let us be men
not monkeys minding machines
or sitting with our tails cur...
D.H. LAWRENCE Aren't I enough for you?' she asked.
'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman i...
D.H. LAWRENCE The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
D.H. LAWRENCE When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,
and when we escape like squirrels turning in t...
D.H. LAWRENCE Incarnate ugliness, and yet alive! What would become of them all? Perhaps with the passing of the co...
D.H. LAWRENCE The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
D.H. LAWRENCE When along the pavement,
Palpitating flames of life,
People flicker around me,
I forg...
D.H. LAWRENCE Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing...
D.H. LAWRENCE How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species.
D.H. LAWRENCE Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by...
D.H. LAWRENCE Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means
D.H. LAWRENCE I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies--thinking that those who care about us w...
D.H. LAWRENCE How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
D.H. LAWRENCE Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life.
D.H. LAWRENCE It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral
D.H. LAWRENCE People always make war when they say they love peace
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 If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, tha...
D.H. LAWRENCE This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be...
D.H. LAWRENCE Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar, but his art, if it be art, will te...
D.H. LAWRENCE There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
D.H. LAWRENCE When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill
D.H. LAWRENCE The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never ...
D.H. LAWRENCE Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
D.H. LAWRENCE Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment comp...
D.H. LAWRENCE That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my a...
D.H. LAWRENCE The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into f...
D.H. LAWRENCE Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and ...
D.H. LAWRENCE Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, t...
D.H. LAWRENCE The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most person...
D.H. LAWRENCE I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should leave me alone.
D.H. LAWRENCE The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. W...
D.H. LAWRENCE They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and ...
D.H. LAWRENCE You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. Y...
D.H. LAWRENCE If you could only tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing! But it's no good. If only...
D.H. LAWRENCE How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead...
D.H. LAWRENCE So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your bo...
D.H. LAWRENCE It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.
D.H. LAWRENCE In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of sha...
D.H. LAWRENCE She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.
D.H. LAWRENCE Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to the same th...
D.H. LAWRENCE Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We mu...
D.H. LAWRENCE What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.
D.H. LAWRENCE And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted c...
D.H. LAWRENCE Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, t...
D.H. LAWRENCE His body was urgent against her, and she didn't have the heart anymore to fight...She saw his eyes, ...
D.H. LAWRENCE All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrappe...
D.H. LAWRENCE Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists th...
D.H. LAWRENCE A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
D.H. LAWRENCE We fucked a flame into being.
D.H. LAWRENCE But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you beca...
D.H. LAWRENCE Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we...
D.H. LAWRENCE She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
D.H. LAWRENCE It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only ...
D.H. LAWRENCE Me? Oh, intellectually I believe in having a good heart, a chirpy penis, a lively intelligence, and ...
D.H. LAWRENCE The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment
D.H. LAWRENCE Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by...
D.H. LAWRENCE Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destr...
D.H. LAWRENCE I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE tog...
D.H. LAWRENCE They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
D.H. LAWRENCE For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was des...
D.H. LAWRENCE And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to ...
D.H. LAWRENCE La sociedad era horrible porque estaba loca. La sociedad civilizada es un despropósito. El dinero y...
D.H. LAWRENCE All the lot. Their spunk is gone dead. Motor-cars and cinemas and aeroplanes suck that last bit out ...
D.H. LAWRENCE And Clifford the same. All that talk! All that writing! All that wild struggling to push himself for...
D.H. LAWRENCE There is nothing to save, now all is lost,
but a tiny core of stillness in the heart
like ...
D.H. LAWRENCE That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into...
D.H. LAWRENCE She turned, and saw a great white moon looking at her over the hill. And her breast opened to it, sh...
D.H. LAWRENCE We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be v...
D.H. LAWRENCE I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
D.H. LAWRENCE If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night
D.H. LAWRENCE One wonders what the proper high-brow Romans ... read into the strange utterances of Lucretius or Ap...
D.H. LAWRENCE What we want is some sort of communism not based on wages, nor profits, nor any sort of buying and s...
D.H. LAWRENCE The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar...
D.H. LAWRENCE I WANT her though, to take the same from me.
She touches me as if I were herself, her own.
D.H. LAWRENCE The bourgeois produces the bolshevist, inevitably as every half-truth at length produces the contrad...
D.H. LAWRENCE Love is the only weapon we need.
D.H. LAWRENCE What did that Walt Disney song say? Someday my prince will come? Well, mine came alright... and I do...
D.H. STARR We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, a...
VICKI LAWRENCE In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evenin...
LAWRENCE WELK My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I did...
LAWRENCE WELK One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers...
LAWRENCE WELK Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.
LAWRENCE WELK Sounds always fascinated me.
LAWRENCE WELK The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
LAWRENCE WELK The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became ...
LAWRENCE WELK When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the count...
LAWRENCE WELK Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or...
LAWRENCE WELK It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
LAWRENCE WELK For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. ...
LAWRENCE WELK Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.
LAWRENCE WELK The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
LAWRENCE WELK If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.
LAWRENCE WELK This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
LAWRENCE WELK I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
LAWRENCE WELK If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the mone...
LAWRENCE WELK Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
LAWRENCE WELK One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
LAWRENCE WELK I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finishe...
LAWRENCE WELK I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for ...
LAWRENCE WELK Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.
JENNIFER LAWRENCE I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.
VICKI LAWRENCE I am not a politician; I've never run for anything in my life. I'm an economist. I'm a b...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW The E.U.'s tax and regulatory policies, climate-change and welfare spending, and free immigratio...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Wars breed unfairness, just as they breed collateral damage.
LAWRENCE KUDLOW We were endowed by our Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happi...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Let's bring in Donald Trump. He wants to lower taxes across the board for individuals and large ...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and yo...
VICKI LAWRENCE There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to wo...
LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've sta...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off th...
VICKI LAWRENCE The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were real...
VICKI LAWRENCE

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