D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
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Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.
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Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.
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Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
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The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.
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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
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I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish it back, splendid as it was. What I believe in is the old Homeric aristocracy, when the grandeur was inside a man, and he lived in a simple wooden house.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent.
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I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.
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It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
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The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
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Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. It is a condition of being.
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Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
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The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
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I can't stand Willy wet-leg, can't stand him at any price. He's resigned, and when you hit him he lets you hit him twice.
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My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
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Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.
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Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.