I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
David Herbert Lawrence
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More quotes by David Herbert Lawrence
- Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
- Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
- 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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