D. H. Lawrence Quotes
Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St.Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
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You don't have the opportunity to win an Emmy unless you're given the opportunity to play certain kinds of roles.
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Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St.Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?
