D. H. Lawrence Quotes
But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I get massive invective, massive abuse, via email, phone messages, and Twitter. From people way, way to the right of center - scary, abusive kind of stuff. Really freaks out my assistant and my wife. Hate-filled.
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Did you ever build a castle in the Air? Here is one, brought down to earth and fixed for the wonder of ages.
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It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its own. The activity of consciousness depending on the way the work itself proceeds, becomes the subject of my attention this way and it is precisely because of this voyeuristic attitude toward the own observation and experience of the subject that the conscious analytic dimension in the work shows.
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Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.
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Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.
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But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
