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Novel Quotes by D. H. Lawrence
- After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not…
- Only in a novel are all things given full play.
- The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
- Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But I'm…
- The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a…
- I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, te…
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