D. H. Lawrence Quotes
To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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Shouting down and intimidating someone from speaking their mind is not exactly a Vermont town meeting value, nor should it be an American town meeting value.
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The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
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I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.
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To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.
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To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.
