“Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.”

— D.H. Lawrence , book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)

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English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary crit… 1885–1930

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