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Letter "D" » D.H. Lawrence Quotes
«Museums, museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-coordinated! It is sickening! Why must all experience be systematized? A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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archaeologist, archaeologists, attempts, co-ordinate, co, coordinate, coordinated, coordinates, coordinating, First hand, illustrate, illustrated, lecture, museum, object lesson, ordinate, rigged, sickening, systematize, systematized, theories, unsound
«I would have loved it - without the French»
«One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be mere rushing on.»
«I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree-presences - it is almost like having another being»
«Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.»
«It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependant on tradition adn second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.»
«But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.»
«Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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| Keywords:
critic, function, proper, tale, The Critic
«Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! / A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.»
«Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.»
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