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Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.
D. H. Lawrence
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D. H. Lawrence
Age: 45 †
Born: 1885
Born: January 1
Died: 1930
Died: January 1
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How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances...The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action in man!
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If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.
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Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
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Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.
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And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.
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