D.H. Lawrence

1885–1930 · English novelist, poet & essayist

David Herbert Lawrence was an English writer whose novels explored industrialization, class, and sexuality with unusual candor for his era. He is best known for Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover, and he was also a prolific letter-writer whose private correspondence is now studied as closely as his fiction.

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“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot”

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“I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams”

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“The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it”

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