D. H. Lawrence Quotes

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

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• You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Creative
  • Virtue