D. H. Lawrence Quotes About Tragedy
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The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
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Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.
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The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.
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The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.
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Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.
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I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
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