D. H. Lawrence

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D. H. Lawrence

11-Sep-1885

United Kingdom

Novelist

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialisation, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct. Four of his most famous novels – Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) – were the subject of censorship trials for their radical portrayals of romance, sexuality, and use of explicit language. Lawrence's opinions and artistic preferences earned him a controversial reputation; he endured persecution and the misrepresentation of his creative work throughout his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile that he described as a "savage enough pilgrimage". At the time of his death, he had been variously scorned as tast… Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._H._Lawrence

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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

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My God, these folks don't know how to love — that's why they love so easily.

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Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free from their authority.

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It's the man who dares to take, who is independent, not he who gives.

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Mrs Morel always said the after-life would hold nothing in store for her husband: he rose from the lower world into purgatory, when he came home from pit, and passed into heaven in the Palmerston Arms.

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Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me!

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The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.