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And can a man his own quietus make with a bare bodkin?
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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Nottinghamshire
David Herbert Lawrence
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The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.
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