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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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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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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The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.
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Without the help of the people our exertions would be as nothing.
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Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.
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My parents, my family, that's the biggest inspiration in my life. I've been in a lot of dark spots in my life, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be able to get out of it, but they are who they are. They followed me. They yelled at me. They screamed at me. They loved me.
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As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.
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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.
