“The mind is “ashamed” of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.”
D.H. Lawrence
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“You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writer … something old-adamish, incompatible to the “ordinary world.”
D.H. Lawrence
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“He was naturally so sensitive, and so kind. But he had the insidious modern disease of tolerance. He must tolerate everything, even a thing that revolted him.”
D.H. Lawrence
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“[In the old religion of the Indians in New Mexico] the whole life-effort of man was to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos…. To come into immediate felt contact, and so derive energy, power, and a dark sort of joy. This effort into sheer naked contact, without an intermediary or mediator, is the root meaning of religion.”
D.H. Lawrence
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“Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.”
D.H. Lawrence
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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.”
D.H. Lawrence
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“Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.”
D.H. Lawrence
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“The essential function of art is moral…. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.”
D.H. Lawrence
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“The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.”
D.H. Lawrence
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“Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!”
D.H. Lawrence
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“Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.”
D.H. Lawrence
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“I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett’s resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.”
D.H. Lawrence
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“The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.”
D.H. Lawrence
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“The weakness of modern tragedy … [is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.”
D.H. Lawrence
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“[Hawthorne”s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.”
D.H. Lawrence
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“If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelist honours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.”
D.H. Lawrence
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“For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives. And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it is the passional secret places of life, above all, that the tide of sensitive awareness needs to ebb and flow, cleansing and freshening.”
D.H. Lawrence
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“The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live, as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.”
D.H. Lawrence
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“That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.”
D.H. Lawrence
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“I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct–and societal repression much more devastating…. I am weary even of my own individuality, and simply nauseated by other people’s.”
D.H. Lawrence
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