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Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.
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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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.
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