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Men are not bad, when they are free.
Prison makes men bad, and the money compulsion
makes men bad.
If men were free from the terror of earning a living
there would be abundance in the world
and men would work gaily.

— D. H. Lawrence

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Censors are dead men
set up to judge between life and death.
For no live, sunny man would be a censor,
he'd just laugh.

Censors (1929)

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)

Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me!

Song of a Man who has Come Through (1917)

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Men fight for liberty, and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

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