D.H. Lawrence Quotes on America (3 Quotes)

We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America -- as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.

America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

America does to me what I knew it would do it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you - no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump bump go the trucks. And that is human contact.