Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
("Lady Chatterley's Lover")
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Along the avenue of cypresses, All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices Of linen, go the chanting choristers, The priests in gold and black, the villagers.
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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 little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches... and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be. Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it -- if he wants a safe seat in the audience -- let him read someone else.
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You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people'.' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler a Kaiser no Presidents and democracies.
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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.
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Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then to get on the move, and to know whither.
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