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«I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike»
«An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight»
«It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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«Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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