#ld

We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge. ↗

— Lucy Lawless

#always #challenge #edge #live #money

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#alive #another #city #creation #death

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#dreaming #gone #mad #men #sleep

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#brutality #could #kindliness #laugh #mix

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#achieved #become #having #himself #his

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#animal #bit #dies #last #leave

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#great mass #humanity #learn #mass #never

Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#europe #good #lobster #mayonnaise #old

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#art #bandit #bear #book #crowd

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#among #audience #author #business #cheering