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" 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. "
D. H. Lawrence
Audience
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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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" Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. "
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" Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. "
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" Only in a novel are all things given full play. "
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" A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. "
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" There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him. "
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" Money is our madness, our vast collective madness. "
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" It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. "
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" Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent. "
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" 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. "
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" Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks. "
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" Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. "
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" Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. "
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" Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff. "
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" It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet. "
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" I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze. "
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" So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. "
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" Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep. "
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" The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else. "
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" The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home. "
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" The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just. "
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" Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion. "
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" Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means. "
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" The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living. "
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" Men! The only animal in the world to fear. "
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