“Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh … without destroying that moment.”

As quoted in D. H. Lawrence and Nine Women Writers (1996) by Leo Hamalian, p. 93

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writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903–1977

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