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The British novelist and critic D. H. Lawrence, who lived in northern New Mexico for two years, conceptualized the US origin myth, invoking Cooper’s frontiersman character Deerslayer: “You have there the myth of the essential white America.
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“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”
― Ethics
― Ethics
“In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.”
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“You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
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“The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.”
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