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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
By David Herbert Lawrence
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
By David Herbert Lawrence
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
By David Herbert Lawrence
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
By David Herbert Lawrence
I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
By David Herbert Lawrence
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
By David Herbert Lawrence
I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
By David Herbert Lawrence
Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
By David Herbert Lawrence
God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
By David Herbert Lawrence
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
By David Herbert Lawrence
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
By David Herbert Lawrence
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
By David Herbert Lawrence
California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
By David Herbert Lawrence
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
By David Herbert Lawrence
All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
By David Herbert Lawrence
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
By David Herbert Lawrence
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
By David Herbert Lawrence
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
By David Herbert Lawrence