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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

D. H. Lawrence

Real, Garden, Literature

If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.

D. H. Lawrence

Literature, Vivid, Matter

D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.174, Cambridge University Press

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

D. H. Lawrence

Art, Literature, Bones

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.417, Cambridge University Press

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

D. H. Lawrence

Freedom, People, Literature

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

D. H. Lawrence

Two Sides, People, Literature

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

D. H. Lawrence

Artist, Literature, Never Trust

Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) ch. 1

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

D. H. Lawrence

People, Soul, Literature

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8753, Delphi Classics

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

D. H. Lawrence

Rest Of Life, Literature, Care

D. H. Lawrence, Simonetta de Filippis (2002). “Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays”, p.200, Cambridge University Press