In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship … - D. H. Lawrence

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I had some very, very fond memories of the people I worked with and the authors I worked with - and I won't mention any names - but as I have been traveling through rural Maine over the past few weeks, one of my favorite things to do is to go into bookstores on the side of rural routes and paw through the old copies of Tom Clancy and Trevanian books they have in there for weird old 1970s thrillers that I haven't read yet.

D. H. Lawrence

In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.

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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

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